Then, after a while, again I got a question about an ad. This time the heading said ‘jean crimes and other misdemeanours’ and the photo showed women wearing jeans that made them look aweful and they were all shackled. This should be easy to explain! Crime, misdemeanour and shackles, no problemo……..So I thought! Honestly, I really tried my best to explain the connection between the words in the header and the shackled women. So far she got it, but there was no way she understood why the women wearing those ill-fitted jeans were shackled. Again the context between words and pictures was totally over her head.

Talking about it a little more and looking at various ads we came to the conclusion that the Chinese do not seem to use words and pictures in this way. I don’t know though…… Perhaps it is the language, perhaps it is culture. As long as my understanding of Chinese is as limited as it is now, I’m not sure we can draw a safe conclusion here. It was very interesting though to try and make them understand, and to see that it somehow did not sink in.

Perhaps……to be continued.

   

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..not here, no…..        use dictionary for translation…

      

take a good look!!!    wonder what service to expect?

    

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