Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Pleasanty Surprise

There was an amusing article in The New York Times on the efforts to spiff up Beijing for next year's Summer Olympics. They still have a way to go on expectorating:

Public spitting is a frequent practice in Beijing and even more common elsewhere in China. (The sinus-clearing, phlegmy pre-spit hawking sound is so common that one foreigner wryly dubbed it “the national anthem of China.”)
And of course those tricky translations:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Have heard trains in China are ankle deep in spit so I hope they are succesful in their efforts to clean up public manners...