http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2008/08/a-structured-approach-to-chinglish-pronunciation-2-of-2/?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid= Home of the Beijing Sounds Studios: productions mostly of language through foreign ears Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:08:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2008/08/a-structured-approach-to-chinglish-pronunciation-2-of-2/comment-page-1/#comment-85972 Randy Alexander Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:33:52 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=200#comment-85972 @minuteman: Derogatory? @minuteman: Derogatory?

]]> http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2008/08/a-structured-approach-to-chinglish-pronunciation-2-of-2/comment-page-1/#comment-85948 minuteman Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:17:18 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=200#comment-85948 actually Hawaii has an official Chinese translation, according to what I see in China, on the US Consulate site in Chengdu. It is 哈瓦伊。 That is a more accurate phonetic rendition and does not have the derogatory meaning that 夏威夷 has. It should be obvious that it is the US in this case, and not China that decides on "standard" translations, just like China decided to change the translation of its capital city from Peking to Beijing. actually Hawaii has an official Chinese translation,
according to what I see in China, on the US Consulate site in Chengdu. It is 哈瓦伊。 That is a more accurate phonetic rendition and does not have the derogatory meaning that 夏威夷 has. It should be obvious that it is the US in this case, and not China that decides on “standard” translations, just like China decided to change the translation of its capital city from Peking to Beijing.

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