Date:    Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:51:37 -0700
<br>From:    Yongwei Gao <951208[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FUDAN.EDU.CN>
<br>Subject: Re: Chinglish
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<br>Hi, everybody!
<br>
<br>Two questions today:
<br>1) Could anybody find anything unidiomatic with "Despite the Asian
<br>financial crisis, Shanghai plans to introduce US$4 billion in contracted
<br>foreign investment this year, according to the Shanghai Foreign
<br>Investment Working Meeting held on April 11", a sentence taken from a
<br>local English newspaper?
<br>2) Has "on the cusp of" (e.g. on the cusp of the millennium) become a
<br>set phrase?
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<br>Thanks.
<br>
<br>Yongwei Gao
<br>Fudan University,
<br>Shanghai, China
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