Intrusive drug testing at the Olympics?

[Joel S. Berson]

Randy, is the IOC issuing its press releases this year in
Chinese?  Or in the lingua Anglia of international organizations,
French, together with the barely-tolerated English?

In any case, I still find "open a procedure into" someone jarring.

Joel

At 8/21/2008 11:43 PM, LanDi Liu wrote:
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>On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> > What about the "into"?  Together with "opening"?
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> > Joel
> >> > "The International Olympic Committee said yesterday it has opened a
> >> > disciplinary procedure into Blonska, who finished second ... yesterday."
>
>"Opened" sounds like a mistranslation from Chinese, where "kai1" =
>start; open; boil, etc.  "Into" might be something similar.  I know
>this is from a Boston Globe article, but they may have lifted some of
>it from a Chinese English source.
>
>--
>Randy Alexander
>Jilin City, China
>My new Chinglish article:
>http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs
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