Prevent accidental injury…

As long as its done gentlely.

Not for the rough.

If I do it on purpose it is not an accident. Right?

We wouldn’t want you to break the floor.

Practice for when they get COVID 19?

She rush’d for the toilet in dire morning need,
To get to the room before that she peed,
But she slipped on the tiles and was tripp’d by the mat,
And injured her arm, her leg, her hand, and the cat.

When you accidentally on purpose?

Another “typical” Chingrish, and the reason why I think Mandarin should introduce spaces in writing.

It’s 小心 地 滑 (be careful, the floor is slippery), but they translated it as if it were 小心地 滑 (carefully slip). The double meaning of 地 (“ground”, or, in this case, “floor” – and “-ly”) didn’t help…

Still, my favourite mistranslation of 小心地滑 I’ve seen in one hotel in Xi’an: just character-by-character, “small heart earth slip”.

A careless slip may leave skid marks.

Look, there’s a right way of doing things, and a wrong way.

It’s Lawsuit Awareness -and– Safety First Month!

From the old prayer: Now I carefully fall myself down and accidentally go to sleep…

It’s the all-purpose sign cleaning staff use at Doctors & Lawyers Hospital.*

*Hat tip to Firesign Theatre

Finally, something I can do well.

Gently twist and fracture your leg.

And be careful to bump your head on the wall on the way down.

Like I said before, I don’t think we have a lot to fear from these people…SO many dialects…a friend worked in a US IT dept. that was staffed solely by Chinese…one day the head of IT exploded, “We can’t understand each other, and we’re all Chinese!!“

Whoa, whoa — slow down with these complicated instructions!

Let’s take it a step at a tiiiiiiiime.