I used to be a great fan of websites such as engrish.com and engrish funny, but I don't know any more. At Ashland University I usually have half a dozen or so Chinese students who actually write that way, and it gets to be painful after a while.
I used Yahoo's Babelfish to translate the deep philosophical text "I am a little teapot, short and stout" into Chinese, then back to English. I got "I am the small teapot, short and the fierce black beer." That's about how my students' essays look.
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