Meet the sign police – World – CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/15/f-beijing-signs.html

David Tool, a retired U.S. army colonel, has made it his mission to eradicate broken English in Beijing. An English professor at the city’s International Studies University, Tool says he has corrected more than one million mistakes over the past seven years as a volunteer for the local government.

The Chinese media have dubbed him the “sign police” professor.

Captain Killjoy (aka Colonel Tool, which works just as well) mounts a one-man assault on Chinglish to save all of us from the horrors of:

(Did he not see the “Pleasanty” part?)

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