English n China
China Through the Eyes of Forest L. Littke
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GuangDong, Shenzhen: It is written here as "ANK", however I feel it was a product of wear and tear and the B just got removed. As an additional note, I took this photo by shooting on the side. In ancient China it was customary to write the language from Top to Bottom ... Left to Right side. At the time of the Great Revolution of Mao, the people began to write from the L to the R in a horizontal format rather than vertical. When you travel to China and visit the Old monuments... it reads from "right to left"! On behalf of languages in general, English is one of the more recent languages to emerge in our species history. Languages which include Chinese, and other ancient cultures all wrote from Left to Right.
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About the Book
This book is one in a series where Forest has found words, sometimes in the oddest places, which are by English perspectives, out of place! At first it was just an "Oh, look at that, how strange!" Then he began to take casual photos of the words, and thus it grew into a hobby. Then the hobby turned into a strange passion, and the collection grew from a simple dozen to nearly six hundred at the time of the first printed version. The first volume will have one hundred chosen photos with a short blurb or paragraph to follow. Most are simply random with the odd theme "here and there."
About the Author
Forest is a Canadian but has lived and worked in China since 2010 as an English teacher. Because of his clear, unmistakable Canadian accent, he is hired to teach oral English, helping the Chinese with pronunciation skills. While living in China, he has developed a close eye for the unseen or overlooked English words that are spelled wrong in public advertisements. He has developed a true fondness for the people and their country. Often strangers call out "Bethune!" after the late Norman Bethune a Canadian doctor who served in the Chinese army.