Imagethief

I particularly like the Tibetan antelope raising his fist in salute underneath his decloration of intent

Best Chinglish ever!

You are aware that your "better" translation wouldn't fit on the banner?

In fact, I hereby challenge anyone to come up with an actually good translation of that type of sentiment in English about that subject that would fit on that banner! Must contain the words "world's biggest" to qualify...

If you think this is unfortunate, try these literally-translated menus: http://mindbloggingstuff.blogspot.com/2006/08/eat-healthy-exercise-often-die-anyway.html

The world's biggest sports competition is about to fulminate.

Absolutely unparalleled!! LOL!

@LAOLAO

Not sure if you're being funny or not, but for those playing at home I will simply note that in modern usage "fulminate" usually means "criticize acidly"...

@hun - ty :)

@shannon - Though I am not a wordsmith like Will, I picked that word based on it's multiple meanings. ;)

When I am forced (paid) to translate, I usually have the (bad) habit of trying to translate from the hanzi to latin, then to the target language, regardless of the current (modern) usage.

In this case, you get what you pay for ($0), so I'm still sticking with my entry. :)

v.intr.

  1. To issue a thunderous verbal attack or denunciation: fulminated against political chicanery.

  2. To explode or detonate.

v.tr.

  1. To issue (a denunciation, for example) thunderously.

  2. To cause to explode.

http://www.answers.com/topic/fulminate

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fulminate

Language Log seem to have got themselves harmonized for their efforts (at least on BJ Netcom)