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On 2019-03-17 12:48 p.m., wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 07:14:23 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton

>> I'm sure millions of people all over the world misspell words in
>> foreign languages that they do not speak. I get a chuckle every
>> time I read the menu in a Chinese restaurant.
>
> An American Chinese restaurant menu is NOT Chinese... at best they are
> fercocktah transliterations... and each restaurant spells the dishes
> somewhat differently in English. Chinese has no alphabet... their
> spoken language relies heavily on intonations.


That may be, but most communities around here don't have many Chinese
speakers so they rely on those English translations.

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