Some "important" news...apparently "baby changing station" is literally a place to exchange babies and the THSR has made an huge gaffe by using this translation for the place where one changes diapers/nappies. They suggest using the incorrect "DIAPER CHANGEZONE".
How the hell did they get this idea? Is there any way of telling these idiots they are wrong?
http://www.nownews.com/2008/08/04/91-2314926.htm

I wouldn't know how to tell the original complainers they're wrong, wrong, wrong. (But I'm trying muttering it right now, just in case that works.)

Taiwan Gaotie's Web site, however, has a suggestions form and a customer-service number (6626-8000).

Like all the others: word-by-word translation + poor grammar skills


No. I mean you could probably call or email them but don´t expect that they will listen to your advise. Chabuduo and all that.

Bunch of fucking pillocks. A product made and presumably named by a company in the US, yet some halfwitted blowhard over here thinks his Enrishee spikk-spikk is better.
Anyway, it should be "Put off stinky napkin shitty smell area."

You mean I CAN'T swap my baby there? Bugger.

Right I told the HSR people that the English is correct.
In fact my Chinese teacher raised the subject in our class today, she had also thought the "baby changing station" could be a place where your baby might be snatched by a "heiren", at least that's what I thought I heard--I would prefer to put it down to my poor listening skills.
Strange day.

Edit: my dictionary says that "heiren" can also mean "unregistered resident" or "disgraced/wanted person" - is this usage still found in Taiwan?

Did you read this sentence in the article:



So, which "foreign friends" think it's wrong?

The guy in the video with a slight European accent who obviously doesn't know what "Change the baby" means, or is having a laugh or was asked a loaded question like "Is 'Changing the baby' a strange phrase?"

Apparently "Judy" on the Tarako Express imagined her child being exchanged for another. I am guessing they made this up. Could the meaning be confused in any dialect of English?
http://city.udn.com/125/2969009

On another bug bear, why are foreigners often only addressed by their first name in the Taiwanese media?

Does that page work?