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The Great Autismo! posted:for whatever reason, this is the sentence that always makes me laugh the hardest That article is a goldmine and also has this line: "Similarly, the dog had been placed in the wolf enclosure to breed a hybrid wolf-dog, she said"
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I was on the train and it stopped at a station and a mom got on, staring deeply into her Earlier, I had been walking to go to the station when I had to go through one of those under-road tunnels. Three real estate dweebs in their matching uniforms and pompadour undercuts were chatting together. Two were sitting on the curb, on papers they had laid down, and another was sitting on a rental bike, one tire in the road, another on sidewalk. Bike guy looked up and saw me coming toward him. He frowned at me and pulled the bike up onto the sidewalk in a road block style and tried to rocker it back and forth based on the direction I was changing to try and get around him purposely blocking me. I kicked the back tire and he just stared at me like he had no clue what had just happened. The reptilian brain is strong here, with the fight or flight coming into play when confronted with terrifying things like people with different eyes and noses.
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May 19, 2017 11:11
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May 19, 2017 14:26
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Surely you'd notice the (lack of) weight when you picked it up? Or did they put a rock in the middle of the box as well?
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May 19, 2017 14:31
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Grand Fromage posted:These things specifically are because Chinese lacks a generic plural. You have to have a specific number to make a plural. That's why everything is the Four Inventions or Eight Great Sights or whatever. That's really interesting. How do they go about translating foreign works with generic plurals? Are they actually assigning random numbers to everything?
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May 19, 2017 15:00
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that is a new take on those fake sandwiches
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Xotl posted:That's really interesting. How do they go about translating foreign works with generic plurals? Are they actually assigning random numbers to everything? You just take it from context, add a number of you want to specific. Or you can say there were a bunch or a few or one or whatever. For example, if you wanted to say "The zoo has tigers.", it's implied that tigers is plural. You would say "The zoo has one tiger.", if you wanted to specify that tiger is singular.
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bamhand posted:You just take it from context, add a number of you want to specific. Or you can say there were a bunch or a few or one or whatever. I think you're just giving the instructions for English.
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May 19, 2017 15:28
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Yah I'm too lazy to install a Chinese keyboard. But it's basically as simple as you can imagine.
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Haier posted:Earlier, I had been walking to go to the station when I had to go through one of those under-road tunnels. Three real estate dweebs in their matching uniforms and pompadour undercuts were chatting together. Two were sitting on the curb, on papers they had laid down, and another was sitting on a rental bike, one tire in the road, another on sidewalk. Bike guy looked up and saw me coming toward him. He frowned at me and pulled the bike up onto the sidewalk in a road block style and tried to rocker it back and forth based on the direction I was changing to try and get around him purposely blocking me. I kicked the back tire and he just stared at me like he had no clue what had just happened. The reptilian brain is strong here, with the fight or flight coming into play when confronted with terrifying things like people with different eyes and noses. Wait, so what happened? Was he just trying to get out of your way or what?
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May 19, 2017 16:23
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Xotl posted:That's really interesting. How do they go about translating foreign works with generic plurals? Are they actually assigning random numbers to everything? Reading this made me curious what the Chinese title for Aliens is and apparently it's just 異形2.
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Pirate Radar posted:Reading this made me curious what the Chinese title for Aliens is and apparently it's just 異形2. What's the title for Minions?
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Stringent posted:Wait, so what happened? Was he just trying to get out of your way or what? No, he was being a racist dickheel, deliberately blocking Haier's path. But Haier kicked his back wheel out and walked past. Much face was lost.
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May 19, 2017 18:29
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Xotl posted:That's really interesting. How do they go about translating foreign works with generic plurals? Are they actually assigning random numbers to everything? I had someone ask me once if i liked the tv show "6 friends" and he meant "Friends."
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May 20, 2017 01:07
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Japanese will throw in 数 to describe "multiple/various" if a clear countable number is too large or inconvenient.
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The North Tower posted:What's the title for Minions? depends on the china you are talking about taiwan: 小小兵 (very small soldiers) hk: 迷你兵团 (mini army) mainland: 小黄人大眼萌 (adorable small big-eyed yellow people)
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peanut posted:Japanese will throw in 数 to describe "multiple/various" if a clear countable number is too large or inconvenient. "some" "a bunch of" etc.
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May 20, 2017 01:25
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no i wanted ALIENS godddamit! i saw the first one already!
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May 20, 2017 01:27
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In Chinese it's also possible to say "some" or a "few." "The zoo has some tigers, the zoo has several tigers" etc. 一些老虎，幾隻老虎
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May 20, 2017 03:15
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Today is the third Valentine's day since I arrived last year. Cue the millions of single men and women crying about being unmarried and having to care for children. Nobody wants to celebrate their freedom, and instead want to whine about not being to provide to a kid/wife/husband and their parents for the next 20-30 years. LMAO It's also a day of frantic women on dating apps and IRL that think it's the saddest thing in the world to be alone on this day, and desperately need a date or fling tonight. I am supposed to meet that dancer lady again, but in my usual style will probably cancel and go take a walk and eat cream puffs from the foreign supermarket bakery.
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May 20, 2017 04:36
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Uhhhhh Haier it's not Valentine's or even Qixi today, are you feeling alright?
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Pirate Radar posted:Uhhhhh Haier it's not Valentine's or even Qixi today, are you feeling alright?
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No, he's right, this is one of the eight or twelve "Valentine's Days" that China has every year now and arguably the most bullshit made-up one of them all. Today is May 20, and if you say the numbers out 五二零 is "wu er ling". "I love you" is 我爱你, "wo ai ni" and apparently if you stuff you ears full of cotton, squint a bit, and kill off a generous portion of your brain cells, "wu er ling" somehow sounds like "wo ai ni". Ergo, Valentine's Day. QED.
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May 20, 2017 05:03
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I may be bad at Chinese but I'm not bad enough at Chinese to think wu er ling sounds anything remotely like wo ai ni.
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May 20, 2017 05:17
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I just learned something, then!
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May 20, 2017 05:18
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In Korea the 14th of every month is a Valentine's Day. Most people pay attention to a mere three of them, White Day, Actual Valentine's Day, and Black Day, but there are twelve if you want to be a real dick.
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May 20, 2017 05:28
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So it's like Love Day on the Simpsons?
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May 20, 2017 05:31
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You also have an anniversary after the first 100 days and I believe if you're hardcore/an rear end in a top hat you have one every 100 days of your entire relationship, counting the days like a prison sentence with the crazy person you're dating.
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Grand Fromage posted:I may be bad at Chinese but I'm not bad enough at Chinese to think wu er ling sounds anything remotely like wo ai ni. Your chinese isn't sufficiently nongly, because I'm sure my wife could make it sound like that.
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Grand Fromage posted:In Korea the 14th of every month is a Valentine's Day. Most people pay attention to a mere three of them, White Day, Actual Valentine's Day, and Black Day, but there are twelve if you want to be a real dick. Black day? What, they pulled that one out of their rear end to one-up the Japanese?
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WarpedNaba posted:Black day? What, they pulled that one out of their rear end to one-up the Japanese? It's Korea.
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May 20, 2017 05:46
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Ah, right.
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OMG. I JUSTE SAW THIS. I AM FLOORED, HOLY S
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May 20, 2017 06:31
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I like how it doesn't even mention the fact that it's obviously a ring
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Haier posted:OMG. I JUSTE SAW THIS. I AM FLOORED, HOLY S China invented Swiss watches over 5000 years ago.
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what the gently caress is Chungking hot pot and is it worth $16 American? I ask because there's two Chinese restaurants within decent driving distance and one claims to be serving "authentic" Szechuan cuisine and is expense and the other just serves the usual Americanized stuff for a fraction of the price
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May 20, 2017 07:14
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Can we have a no hotpot talk rule next thread iteration please
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simplefish posted:Can we have a no hotpot talk rule next thread iteration please this isn't a debate it's a simple question where you can either say yes or no or give a list of possible ingredients your babbling ninny response just lost you so much face you're just a skeleton
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May 20, 2017 07:27
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:your babbling ninny response just lost you so much face you're just a skeleton 
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Haier, go for broke and invite all the desperately lonely valentine's girls to meet you at a bar or KTV joint; when they realise you've sitcommed twelve other girls into a stupid faux date loudly announce you're heading to a hotel for an orgy and anyone who wants to be alone is welcome to stay behind. We'll pay for the go pro and hospital bills.
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