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Noun plague

Plain English is a language based on verbs. It is simple, concise, vigorous and, above all, clear. Chinglish is a language based on nouns – vague, general, abstract nouns. Chinglish contains many nouns that are unnecessary. There are three types of unnecessary nouns, which can simply be eliminated:

Redundant nouns (“to accelerate the pace of economic reform”=”to accelerate economic reform”)

Empty nouns (“following the realization of mechanization”=“following the mechanization”)

Category nouns (“opposing the practice of extravagance”=“opposing extravagance”)

At the same time, we looked at two groups of nouns that do carry necessary meaning but that drag unnecessary words along with them. To express their meaning more concisely, we changed them to verbs.

Nouns in the construction unnec. verb + noun (“to make an improvement in”=”to improve”)

“Third word” nouns in the construction unnec. verb + uncec. noun + third word (“to reach the goal of modernization”=”to modernize”)

Sentence based on abstract nouns

Chinglish abounds in sentences that rely chiefly on nouns to express their meaning.

Original: the prolongation of the existence of this temple is due to the solidity of its construction.

Revision: this temple has endured because it was solidly built.

取自The Translator’s Guide to Chinglish, by Joan Pinkham with the collaboration of Jiang Guihua；如有侵权，联系删除

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