A sign at Beijing Nanyuan Airport reading ash-bin is seen in this undated photo. Beijing has corrected over 6,500 traffic signs and will next target public toilets, museums and menus as it erases bad English translations before the 2008 Olympics, a city official has said.
Beijing has corrected over 6,500 traffic signs and will next target other public facilities including toilets, museums, hospitals, sports venues and restaurant menus in an endeavor to weed out bad English translations in public before the 2008 Olympics.
Embracing the first Olympic Games at home, Beijing is setting about to mobilize the mass to correct weird and misunderstanding translations in public to create an easy communicating atmosphere for foreign guests during the Olympics.
Launched last year, the campaign resulted in 6,530 transport-related signs in Beijing being revised or replaced by the end of 2006. More than 1,000 others were dealt with at tourist spots around the city.
"We had relied on the people to find out incorrect translations and accomplished a lot," said Liu. "We will initiate an even more massive public campaign to mop out bad translations from the latter half of this year, in that way those at grass-root places will be found."
To stage a world-class Olympic Games, Beijing can't afford to saddle an Olympic-sized embarrassment over menu items such as "fried crap" and attractions like the "Racist Park" - a venue dedicated to ethnic minorities.
The Olympic Games, however, will not be the ultimate goal. "We will establish a long-term mechanism to keep good translations and try to plant them among the common people," Liu said.
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