How Chinese Speak English This morning, an ABC (American born Chinese) friend sent me this. I thought it was so hilarious that I would like to share this with you. This is how most US English native speakers including ABCs perceive other Chinese looking persons to speak English like this. (ABCs don't see themselves as Chinese, they are bananas, yellow outside, white inside!) In a way, I can't blame them since this is so stereotypical and yet so true. If this is not the case, the joke cease to be funny at all. So I strongly urge all of you non native English speakers, regardless whether you are Chinese or not, to work harder and dispel this racial prejudice. Another reason that I am such a hard ass when I correct your essays. No matter what color you are or what creed you may be, you are always subject to the butt of jokes made by native speakers. This is a human trait. We cannot run from it but we can control and prevent. I shall post the transliteration in the correction box for those who could not decipher the Chinglish version. So bad and yet so good. Mae West's version is the best, "To err is human but it feels so divine."