Tom Spender

Freelance journalist in London

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English isn’t anyone’s property

June 21st, 2011 · No Comments · China, Uncategorized

My second guest blogpost for my friends over at English Trackers – the amazing editing and translation services company – who for reasons best known to themselves have committed to posting 100 blogposts in 100 days. Good luck!

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Guest blog at English Trackers

November 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments · China, Uncategorized

Guest post on writing simple English at the English Trackers blog.

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“Be careful of landslide”

February 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments · China

A nice – and increasingly rare – bit of Chinglish in Beijing (on the stairs up to McDs on Gongrentibeilu in Dongsishitiao). Beijing had a serious makeover in 2008 for the Olympic Games that included a purge on erratic but amusing and often poetic or thought-provoking translations from Chinese to English on public signs. The [...]

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