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Default Re: linguistic mistakes committed by politics from countries that english is not firs

Assad5, this may not be exactly what you are
looking for, but perhaps you may be able to use
some of it.

This article lists mistakes made by some Taiwanese ministers.

"Foreign ministers often come and go quickly"
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/cp/opini...ng/joe0717.htm

And here is another one where the Chinese
media failed to understand humor reported in
the satirical newspaper "Onion" and went on
to translate it into Chinese and report it.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...8/MN129538.DTL

The following is not an English
mistake because the person
perhaps did not understand Chinese, when the
Chinese president Hu was visiting the US earlier
this year.
" As China's national anthem was about to be played, the official announcer said: "The national anthem of the Republic of China."

What he meant, of course, was the anthem of the People's Republic of China."


A press conference planned for Hu later in the day at the Chinese embassy was abruptly canceled, and Chinese reporters confided that officials feared Hu would be asked about the gaffe and have trouble responding.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiw.../22/2003303984

Finally, here is a site that looked promising,
but turned out to be not all that great:

DIPLOMATIC LANGUAGE BLUNDERS
http://textus.diplomacy.edu/Blunders...erTopic=/40365
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