Welcome to my first ever "Chinglish" Fry Daze post!

We’ll see if I can get a sample of prime "Chinglish" each week to post on Fridays for your reading enjoyment. 

The London Telegraph reports that there is campaign in Beijing to wipe-out Chinglish there as it is "a blight on China’s modernizing pretensions".  Their goal is to get rid of it before the much-heralded 2008 Olympics in Beijing.  They even have a hot-line you can call.  Good luck with that, I say.  I wonder how far the campaign will spread…

In the meantime, check out this picture of a toy that Christa bought (here in Xining) for one of Anna’s classmates who is having a birthday.  It is an obvious Transformers knock-off.

The toy is called FIREENINEBOT.  If I were on wheel of fortune and I had to buy a consonant I am pretty sure it would be a "G".

This one is my favorite though.  It’s the much-feared Fireeninebot known as "Copteracy" (When it’s not flying over the city streets, it’s teaching kids how to read!  Oooh, intimidating robot…)