{"id":636,"date":"2007-01-17T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/gaoxiong-receives-funding-to-upgrade-the-citys-english\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T15:01:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T07:01:03","slug":"gaoxiong-receives-funding-to-upgrade-the-citys-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/gaoxiong-receives-funding-to-upgrade-the-citys-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaoxiong receives funding to upgrade the city&#8217;s English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Gaoxiong (Kaohsiung) has recently secured funding from the Executive Yuan to <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">waste on so-called translation agencies that wouldn&#8217;t know real English if it bit them on the ass<\/span>, <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">print up some signs on which the English is so small as to be almost unusable<\/span>, <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">put up even more signs in a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081014045747\/https:\/\/pinyin.info\/romanization\/tongyong\/index.html\">romanization system few people know but many think is ridiculous at best<\/a><\/span>, <\/li>\n<li>um, create an &#8220;English-friendly environment&#8221; in advance of the World Games, which will be held in the city in 2009. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The stories didn&#8217;t mention how much money will be involved in this. The project will be headed by the recently promoted <span class=\"py\">X&#468; L&#236;-m&#237;ng<\/span> (&#35377;&#31435;&#26126; \/ Xu Liming \/ Hsu Li-ming). <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all hope the city does a much better job than is to be expected from past experience throughout Taiwan. <\/p>\n<p>sources: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081014045747\/http:\/\/www.cna.com.tw\/eng\/cepread.php?id=200701160025&amp;pt=2&amp;LArr=200701160027,200701160026,200701160025,200701160024,200701160023,200701160022,200701160021,200701160020,200701160019,200701160018,200701160017,200701160016,200701160015,200701160014,200701160013,200701160012,200701160011,200701160010,200701160009,200701160008\">Kaohsiung devotes efforts to build English-friendly environment<\/a>, CNA, January 16, 2007<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081014045747\/http:\/\/c.yam.com\/www\/nlink\/r.c?http:\/\/news.yam.com\/cna\/life\/200701\/20070116840665.html\"><span class=\"py\">Ji&#233;h&#233; Sh&#236;y&#249;n: G&#257;oxi&#243;ng Sh&#236; y&#237;ngz&#224;o Y&#299;ngy&#468; t&#333;ng hu&#225;nj&#236;ng<\/span><\/a> (&#32080;&#21512;&#19990;&#36939; &#39640;&#24066;&#29151;&#36896;&#33521;&#35486;&#36890;&#29872;&#22659;), CNA, January 16, 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Gaoxiong (Kaohsiung) has recently secured funding from the Executive Yuan to waste on so-called translation agencies that wouldn&#8217;t know real English if it bit them on the ass, print up some signs on which the English is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/gaoxiong-receives-funding-to-upgrade-the-citys-english\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,41,71,70,32,39,20,19,48,3,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-english","category-gaoxiong","category-kaohsiung","category-mandarin","category-olympics","category-pinyin","category-romanization","category-signage","category-taiwan","category-tongyong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7982,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/7982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}