I don't give a dip that you have work, just find someone to help (and not your freaking kids thank you).

Chinglish by Sue Cheung | Waterstones

Reading this book made me feel less alone and I feel sad that 14-year-old Laura never had the chance to read books like this. I feel like it teaches teenagers that it is okay to be who you are, that you should not change and embrace the differences between you and your peers.

At the syntactic level, Chinese thinking has influenced Chinglish speakers to utilize a different sequence and structure to make sentences.

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One second it's awful and the next it's not but there was a lot in there that shouldn't have really been glossed over towards the end. The Chinese term sìwéi ( 四維; '4 dimensions') uses wéi "tie up; maintain, uphold; estimate" that commonly transcribes foreign names such as wéiwú'ěr ( 維吾爾; ' Uyghur'). For example, the words " tuhao" (nouveau riche) and " dama" (elderly ladies) have been shortlisted to be included in The Oxford English Dictionary because they encapsulate and describe social phenomena in a way that bridges the language divide, the Xinhua News Agency reported in 2015. But while Jo begins to feel hopeful about her future and takes steps towards realising her dream of working in fashion, she and Bonny are increasingly neglected by their parents, and then there’s Dad’s aggressive outbursts. Chinglish speakers use Chinese phonological units to speak English, and retain the syllable timing of Chinese in place of the stress timing of English which together gives them a notable accent.

Other terms used to describe the phenomenon include "Chinese English", "China English", " Engrish" and "Sinicized English".

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Many Chinese words also have similar meanings depending on context; for instance, the character 看 can mean watch, read, look, or see. Although this book covers some powerful and sensitive topics such as racism, abuse and bullying (trigger warnings if these topics affect you), it is also heartwarming, hopeful and laugh out loud funny. the conceit is elegantly of a piece, yet Hwang is able to keep turning it in on itself to reveal new ambiguities, absurdities, subversions and paradoxes.

Take for instance, this headline: "China lodges solemn representation over Japan's permission for Rebiya Kadeer's visit". His art has illuminated and anticipated our ongoing national story with a sensibility unlike any other in the American theater. But unlike the other kids at her new school or her posh cousins, Jo lives above her parents’ Chinese takeaway. This example occurred following the Enterovirus 71 epidemic in China, and mistranslates féicháng ( 肥腸; 'pig's large intestines [used as food]') as cháng[dào] bìngdú ( 腸[道]病毒; 'intestinal virus').