The potential risks of standardising China’s translated foreign affairs discourse

For Westerners who have only rudimentary Chinese proficiency, daily life in China can be filled with confusing phrases. Bewildering English public signs such as 'slip and fall down carefully' in a restroom with wet floors and 'slobber-in chicken' in a local restaurant's menu sound awkward to Western ears. The laughter they elicit can be humiliating to Chinese people and generally hurt national pride. This has led to a growing zeal at government level to improve English expression

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