Chinglish.com, a website format to promote linguistic and cultural communication between Chinese and English speaking countries with the creation of an internet community in which Chinese and English can coexist and enrich each other in a single location. Email being the primary application on the internet, "Chinglish is the only email system providing a web-based Chinese input method editor (IME). This enables any user outside of China to email in Chinese from computers that cannot switch alphabet to characters for lack of a Chinese IME or operating system."
"The very first email message from China was sent in 1986 but it took another decade for internet to become available to the Chinese public. Internet being a Western invention, email protocol originally was developed for the alphabet. Until today, China's 150 million internet users could not use their own name in their language to email with." Chinglish gives Chinese their identity and language back as well as helps the vast number of foreigners studying Chinese and cross-cultural communication. Link
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