Tuesday, April 04, 2006

My first bilingual pun!

This is the first Chinese character-English pun I've understood (not surprising given that I supposedly know around 200 characters . . . and you need to know thousands to be literate).


This is an ad for a new McDonald's sandwich where the bun is made of rice. The character part of the word is the character for rice and in Cantonese it sounds like "fan". So "fan"+tastic= a pun I can understand! I never thought a McDonald's ad campaign would make me so happy!

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