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© Fred Said 2012
A hefty, but quick-moving, thunderstorm rolled through Providence this afternoon. I opened the door with one hand and held the camera with the other. Luckily, I caught one of the many lightning flashes and cracks of thunder.
Gearing up for a long run reminds me of when we had to go somewhere with an infant. I even bring bottles, but there are no diapers. Although, if this morning’s run had been a little longer, that may not have been a bad idea!
It was a perfect morning for a run. I set out to do eight miles, but ended up doing ten. I tried to keep the pace manageable, and it paid off in the end. I kept all my miles between 7:36 and 7:56.
Quoted from
Shanghai Is Trying to Untangle the Mangled English of Chinglish – NYTimes.com
SHANGHAI — For English speakers with subpar Chinese skills, daily life in China offers a confounding array of choices. At banks, there are machines for “cash withdrawing” and “cash recycling.” The menus of local restaurants might present such delectables as “fried enema,” “monolithic tree mushroom stem squid” and a mysterious thirst-quencher known as “The Jew’s Ear Juice.”
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A Sampling of Chinglish
Those who have had a bit too much monolithic tree mushroom stem squid could find themselves requiring roomier attire: extra-large sizes sometimes come in “fatso” or “lard bucket” categories. These and other fashions can be had at the clothing chain known as Scat.
Go ahead and snicker, although by last Saturday’s opening of the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, drawing more than 70 million visitors over its six-month run, these and other uniquely Chinese maladaptations of the English language were supposed to have been largely excised.
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