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[bweidema]

Has anyone ever heard of or worked at the Shanghai Outstanding Foreign Language School?

[therock]

This school is outstanding

[GeminiTiger]

SHANGHAI OUTSTANDING FOREIGN LANGUAGE SCHOOL LOCATED IN SHANGHAI IS AN OUTSTANDING FOREIGN LANGUAGE SCHOOL.

[Orrin]

I just love "Chinglish". 'Sounds like an outstanding school to me.

[TexasHighway]

Chinese parents face a real dilemma....should they send their kids there or to the Shanghai Cheery English School?

[And Your Bird Can Sing]

Perhaps the name of the centre is actually a Freudian slip. After all, is 'outstanding' here used in the sense of 'phenomenal'/'marvellous'/etc., or does it mean 'unpaid'/'unsettled'/etc.?

[Sean1009]

It sounds much better than the Shanghai Normal University.

[The Great Wall of Whiner]

[Sean1009]

Obviously nothing is as outstanding as the Shanghai Outstanding Foreign Language School.

[TexasHighway]

[Sean1009]

Interesting. Wikipedia should add that info to their article on S.N.U.

[WhatsGrammar?]

[TexasHighway]

In fact, Shanghai Normal University used to be called Shanghai Teachers University.

[Sean1009]

Quoting wikipedia:
In 1972, East China Normal University was renamed Shanghai Normal University, when it merged Shanghai Teachers Institute, Shanghai Education Institute, Shanghai Physical Education Institute, and Shanghai in-Service Teachers Institute. In 1978, the four institutes detached and resume their original status'. In July 1980, the University resumed its original name.

[Sean1009]

I wonder how off topic we can get before a moderator deletes this thread.