Posted AT 4:20 AM EST on 16/07/08
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BEIJING — With the Olympics nearing, Beijing has made heroic efforts to wipe "Chinglish" off menus and road signs, but this quirky, nonsensical language has one last stronghold: the chests of millions.
A stroll down any street in the city of 15 million exposes English-speakers to a parade of brightly coloured and mentally baffling T-shirts, whose crimes against grammar range from spelling mistakes to paragraphs of total gibberish.
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