Thursday, August 14, 2008

Weird Article

This is a weird article about the Olympics. "Why?" you ask. Because it is about a Chinese girl named "He." The pronoun/name becomes rather confusing at first glance. Consider this paragraph:
If the age reported by Xinhua was correct, that would have meant He was too young to be on the Chinese team that beat the United States on Wednesday and clinched China's first women's team Olympic gold in gymnastics. He is also a favorite for gold in Monday's uneven bars final.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Reminds me of Hebrew: "Who is he, he is she."

My Middle Age Moments said...

Another thing about this that is funny is that the word "HE" is also the word for "and" in chinese. Just a little extra wierdness to there for you. :)