China and Chinese speaking countries will be the largest English speaking populations within a few years. How new users impact the language interests me. While living in Taiwan I noticed “New Open” used the way we in the states use “Grand Opening.” The Chinglish version is more succinct and communicates the same information – even communicates it better to non-native English speakers (NNS) than the idiomatic phrase that sounds right to locals of these united states. The language likes economy of word use.
Welcome to my JCCC writing blog Grand Opening. This blog will share educational philosophy, (aka pedagogy, or the more correct but more easily misunderstood andragogy (no that has nothing to do with androids)), as well as resources for students of composition.
Goal: to post content of use to composition students using multiple modes of expression.
And a bit of trivia: I changed the title because I couldn’t decide if the title should read “as clearly as possible,” or “as clear(ly) as possible”?
For original source of these cartoons go to http://xkcd.com/
