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The first sentence is not great English, but understandable. I have no idea what the second sentence is supposed to mean!
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- 11-Apr-2011, 16:26 #1
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Chinglish Saying Some Chinese English teachers are promoting the below 'saying' online and bragging that it is good English, which I'm quite doubtful about:
Tired heart is always hovering between adhering to and giving up, indecisive. Trouble is that memory is good, the mind should not mind will stay in memory.
What do you think of it?
- 11-Apr-2011, 17:17 #2
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Re: Chinglish Saying I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
- 11-Apr-2011, 17:27 #3
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Re: Chinglish Saying How about the grammar in the second?
Originally Posted by Barb_D 
- 11-Apr-2011, 17:28 #4
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Re: Chinglish Saying Non-existent. Originally Posted by LiuJing
- 11-Apr-2011, 17:29 #5
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Re: Chinglish Saying Incomprehensible. Originally Posted by LiuJing I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
- 11-Apr-2011, 17:40 #6
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Re: Chinglish Saying Originally Posted by Barb_D 
- 11-Apr-2011, 18:24 #7
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Re: Chinglish Saying My favourite Chinese saying which is incomprehensible in English:
Don't move, or my gun will have no eyes!
- 11-Apr-2011, 18:26 #8
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Re: Chinglish Saying I will treasure that one. Originally Posted by konungursvia
- 11-Apr-2011, 18:38 #9
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Re: Chinglish Saying The second part tries to say:
The trouble for me is that I have got such nice memory that those things I should care about and I shouldn't, stay in my mind forever.
- 11-Apr-2011, 19:20 #10
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Re: Chinglish Saying The number of hits it gets in Google search is difficult for me to understand. Is this a popular saying in China? Is there a good translation?
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