Here on my coffee table is a copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I decided to peruse the DVD cover. I first noticed that the movie information at the bottom (you know, the stuff that says its rating, who is in the film, who directed it, who did the music) was incorrect. It was about Disney's The Kid with Bruce Willis. (How old is that movie?) I then noticed the translation of the movie's summary. It was a beautiful piece of Chinglish. Here we go:
"The Charlie is a little boy of docile, he was born in a large chocolate factory to attachNear the family that door is poor;A person with peculiar character of the Willy Wonka, own aAn equally peculiar chocolate factory.The Wonka of solitary one person held a the field draw prizes,Decide to choose for own chocolate factory an inherits the person.Include the Charlie at inside of5 child that are luckies take out medium aureate lottery ticket, and be visit this to be filled with the mysterious colorThe qualifications of the colourful chocolate factory.Hence, a few childs have arrived at this for 15 yearsNo one to the peculiar factory that lead, attend a mysterious unfathomable and risky ......."
English teachers of the world.....we've got a lot of work to do.
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