I bought what turned out to be a very excellent book with basic characters for travelers, I Can Read That. By the time I got off the plane, I could recognize several basic, common characters, some even out of context! But because of the compound nature of many Chinese terms, actually understanding a line of characters sometimes takes greater creative interpretation abilities than I possess. See if you can figure out what these two mean:
1. public use electric voice
2. prohibited peace times exit
Sidenote, Wikipedia has an entry for Chinglish :) .
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