Jun 7, 2020 9:56 PM
ARussianAndHisBike
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chinese
batman
spicy_bacon
languages_are_fun
na_na_na_na_la_la_na_na_la_la
Steefffan
Ya still hate english?
J1mbers
When he takes that SpICy bacon
TheThingNoNotThatOne
Nothing beats the classic Baltimore accent test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfIWX5vGTEk
dontbothernoggin
!
AtsaMattaForMe
v
StabbyMcMurder
This is so dumb. +1 updoot.
GoodFellowSkeleton
Today on "Is It Racist?"
Panserclaw
Take it damn you!
supermario182
WinchesterTavern
ComfortMisha
It makes a funny translation, but the sentence is a grammatical nightmare.
RagingRaven336
I want some spicy bacon
whatiswrongwithyouppl
sprinkle cayenne on your bacon before skillet or pan frying it.... so good
CptJohnYossarian
... Hey Jude
WestieTree5
I want your nana's spicy bacon
yourlocaleconomicsnerd
HEY PUNK
Kahmael
MissPizzaDemon
This confirmed my shower/high question- do other languages have tongue twisters like we do aka “Sally sells seashells by the seashore”
johnjohnsonss
Dungeongeek
You’re going to hell for this?
Richter12x2
So this is what that My Chemical Romance song was about the whole time! No wonder they were sad!
2015Camry
Punk is two syllable word. Wonder what it is a compound of.
justarocknroller
Can you imagine a world with hover bacon?
plymouthvaliant
Wow, that meme makes me feel old
La la la la laaaaaa
BeExcellent
Now I can't imagine a world without hover bacon. The people demand hover bacon!
pinatafarmer
I'd be eating them like chips like Homer Simpson did in space v
Damnit, now I've got the Blue Danube Waltz stuck in my head
Torontrepreneur
family guy "low resolution blocky universe" on youtube is the clip
Thefear1984
There's no "la" in the batman theme.
butts4hats
getyourfruitoffmeyoudamndirtygrapes
that's mandarin for you
MakersMarkTangoFoxtrot
eye I aye
Drakorise
I had it until Terpsichore. Terp-si-kor-e for anyone interested
Alfadorfox
I like that some of the less commonly known ones are paired up with a more common word in a rhyming couplet, so you can tell from context.\
Blue4Five
LiteralVampirePotBellyGoblins
lada
NachoPete
mikeatike
hey hey hey, goodbye
QuindecimT
How do they even differentiate between phrases?Do they just assume the most logical phrase?How do they deal with legal-specific”he/she said”
DianNaoChong
America has "Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo."
abundantbadgers
Mandarin has 4 tones to distinguish words. Also they love puns and tongue twisters so this would happen just for shits and giggles.
Kasai
Tonal, It could start high and end high, start low and end high, or any variation. All of them are different words. Like minute and minute 1
In English where they are spelt the same but are different words and only differentiated by where stressing is.
RackhamTheRed
That sentence was a grammatical atrocity, I think nativ speakers wouldn't even understand it without the text.
Deathwing777
Even better
kevinallover
Missing quite a few particles there, no? Like aspect and counters etc.
And the choice of words and "convenient" translations. Hier steaming mess
opwankenop
imgurianese
I like the click sounds too
Surisuule
@YourUncleMowsYourTuna
cloudless9
Who has a link to the egg one
FrogDelay
I can’t get enough
helenfrankannekeller
Then you’re a fan of tiktok
No
Well that’s where these videos are from so
anotherdickat
No, that's Daler Mehndi's- Tunak Tunak Tun Video https://youtu.be/vTIIMJ9tUc8 critics were saying the only reason he was popular was the -->
I remember that music video from 2006. It’s nostalgic.
MyFavoritesIsAllComics
Bless you, I’ve been looking for this for ages!
ComicSansHumor
I believe the musician's name is Zunai. He made that video when critics said his success came from having pretty women in his music videos.
Typo: Tunai
sadn00b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daler_Mehndi
Corrected. Thank you. :)
RuffleMyFluffles
There is a next level of this, a poem written with 92 characters of "Shi", from the 1930s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vExjnn_3ep4
venomlash
Forty-four dead stone tigers!
Jaymezians
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo; Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Stop the bullying.
ShibesKeanu
Aww shiiiii...
icommentwithsteveharvey
You know!!
HaniiPuppy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWFNhuDQ0Tc
3Davideo
That's what shi said.
somethingstupidandclever
My band thought that was so neat back in the day. Many terrible songs written. Someone gets it!!
CmfMttnPpl
You know.. maybe English isn't so bad
ALushandaTramp
I showed this to my Taiwanese friend, & he looked at it for like ten seconds then turned to me & said "what the fuck does this mean"
Apparently, this poem's grammar is about apparent for native speakers as the "buffalo" example is for English speakers.
(to clarify, I showed it to him in writing in Mandarin, and he couldn't make heads or tails of it at first)
imgary
Would someone fluent in Chinese understand this or would it sound off? Or to English speaking “she sells sea shell on the sea shore”?
Mobileuserwholikestoberandom
It’s the Chinese equivalent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
owlest
no, nobody would understand it without context, it's not meant to be taken seriously
CompressedInfo
I believe it was written as an example of why it would be a bad idea to ditch the Chinese characters for romanization exclusively
TheLordOfGiraffes
It couldn’t be because Pinyin was originally developed in the 1950s.
Yes, but they already had Wade-Giles, which was dominant before that, and remains in use in Taiwan
Oh oop. I hadn’t heard of Wade-Giles before. Though I suppose it makes sense that they had one earlier
LetMeGoogleThatShtForYou
Not romanization but why not to limit Chinese to Mandarian, as read in Cantonese or Hokkien it can be read with different syllables
MrRemakes
Vietnam did that, and it seems to have worked out pretty well. At least, it's better than using Chinese characters for writing in Vietnamese
HighFlyKai
Why they do that?
crayfishermetimbers
how is it better?
My very vague understanding is that Chinese written language really didn't gel with the Vietnamese spoken language. Alphabet works better.
Xianimus
吃葡萄不吐葡萄皮
Guessing it's some sort of idiom?
I mean, it also *sounds* like you're taking a bite out of a grape and then spitting grape skins ptoo ptow pee
Not an idiom. It's a tongue twister in Mandarin
MylundTheMad
I don’t know what the Hel you just said, but given the context I think you’ve made your point
hippiteehoppitee
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PM5I0899Qqg
derfisher
Yupppp. I studied chinese for 3 years. Went for a semester abroad and had a whole practiced sentence planned out for a guy. His response:
"What the shit did you just say?" So anyways I'm in healthcare consulting now.
Was it an angry "What the shit did you just say?" or a perplexed "What the shit did you just say?"
Tones are so hard to string together. You really need to be around it to perfect it.
Steefffan
Ya still hate english?
J1mbers
When he takes that SpICy bacon
TheThingNoNotThatOne
Nothing beats the classic Baltimore accent test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfIWX5vGTEk
dontbothernoggin
!
AtsaMattaForMe
StabbyMcMurder
This is so dumb. +1 updoot.
GoodFellowSkeleton
Today on "Is It Racist?"
Panserclaw
Take it damn you!
supermario182
WinchesterTavern
ComfortMisha
It makes a funny translation, but the sentence is a grammatical nightmare.
RagingRaven336
I want some spicy bacon
whatiswrongwithyouppl
sprinkle cayenne on your bacon before skillet or pan frying it.... so good
CptJohnYossarian
... Hey Jude
WestieTree5
I want your nana's spicy bacon
yourlocaleconomicsnerd
HEY PUNK
Kahmael
MissPizzaDemon
This confirmed my shower/high question- do other languages have tongue twisters like we do aka “Sally sells seashells by the seashore”
johnjohnsonss
Dungeongeek
You’re going to hell for this?
Richter12x2
So this is what that My Chemical Romance song was about the whole time! No wonder they were sad!
2015Camry
Punk is two syllable word. Wonder what it is a compound of.
justarocknroller
Can you imagine a world with hover bacon?
plymouthvaliant
Wow, that meme makes me feel old
justarocknroller
La la la la laaaaaa
BeExcellent
Now I can't imagine a world without hover bacon. The people demand hover bacon!
pinatafarmer
I'd be eating them like chips like Homer Simpson did in space
v
justarocknroller
Damnit, now I've got the Blue Danube Waltz stuck in my head
Torontrepreneur
Torontrepreneur
family guy "low resolution blocky universe" on youtube is the clip
Thefear1984
There's no "la" in the batman theme.
butts4hats
getyourfruitoffmeyoudamndirtygrapes
that's mandarin for you
MakersMarkTangoFoxtrot
Drakorise
I had it until Terpsichore. Terp-si-kor-e for anyone interested
Alfadorfox
I like that some of the less commonly known ones are paired up with a more common word in a rhyming couplet, so you can tell from context.\
Blue4Five
LiteralVampirePotBellyGoblins
lada
NachoPete
mikeatike
hey hey hey, goodbye
QuindecimT
How do they even differentiate between phrases?Do they just assume the most logical phrase?How do they deal with legal-specific”he/she said”
DianNaoChong
America has "Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo."
abundantbadgers
Mandarin has 4 tones to distinguish words. Also they love puns and tongue twisters so this would happen just for shits and giggles.
Kasai
Tonal, It could start high and end high, start low and end high, or any variation. All of them are different words. Like minute and minute 1
Kasai
In English where they are spelt the same but are different words and only differentiated by where stressing is.
RackhamTheRed
That sentence was a grammatical atrocity, I think nativ speakers wouldn't even understand it without the text.
Deathwing777
Even better
kevinallover
Missing quite a few particles there, no? Like aspect and counters etc.
RackhamTheRed
And the choice of words and "convenient" translations. Hier steaming mess
opwankenop
imgurianese
I like the click sounds too
Surisuule
@YourUncleMowsYourTuna
cloudless9
Who has a link to the egg one
FrogDelay
I can’t get enough
helenfrankannekeller
Then you’re a fan of tiktok
FrogDelay
No
helenfrankannekeller
Well that’s where these videos are from so
anotherdickat
No, that's Daler Mehndi's- Tunak Tunak Tun Video https://youtu.be/vTIIMJ9tUc8 critics were saying the only reason he was popular was the -->
FrogDelay
I remember that music video from 2006. It’s nostalgic.
MyFavoritesIsAllComics
Bless you, I’ve been looking for this for ages!
ComicSansHumor
I believe the musician's name is Zunai. He made that video when critics said his success came from having pretty women in his music videos.
ComicSansHumor
Typo: Tunai
sadn00b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daler_Mehndi
ComicSansHumor
Corrected. Thank you. :)
RuffleMyFluffles
There is a next level of this, a poem written with 92 characters of "Shi", from the 1930s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vExjnn_3ep4
venomlash
Forty-four dead stone tigers!
Jaymezians
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo; Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Stop the bullying.
ShibesKeanu
Aww shiiiii...
icommentwithsteveharvey
You know!!
HaniiPuppy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWFNhuDQ0Tc
3Davideo
That's what shi said.
somethingstupidandclever
My band thought that was so neat back in the day. Many terrible songs written. Someone gets it!!
CmfMttnPpl
You know.. maybe English isn't so bad
ALushandaTramp
I showed this to my Taiwanese friend, & he looked at it for like ten seconds then turned to me & said "what the fuck does this mean"
ALushandaTramp
Apparently, this poem's grammar is about apparent for native speakers as the "buffalo" example is for English speakers.
ALushandaTramp
(to clarify, I showed it to him in writing in Mandarin, and he couldn't make heads or tails of it at first)
imgary
Would someone fluent in Chinese understand this or would it sound off? Or to English speaking “she sells sea shell on the sea shore”?
Mobileuserwholikestoberandom
It’s the Chinese equivalent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
owlest
no, nobody would understand it without context, it's not meant to be taken seriously
CompressedInfo
I believe it was written as an example of why it would be a bad idea to ditch the Chinese characters for romanization exclusively
TheLordOfGiraffes
It couldn’t be because Pinyin was originally developed in the 1950s.
CompressedInfo
Yes, but they already had Wade-Giles, which was dominant before that, and remains in use in Taiwan
TheLordOfGiraffes
Oh oop. I hadn’t heard of Wade-Giles before. Though I suppose it makes sense that they had one earlier
LetMeGoogleThatShtForYou
Not romanization but why not to limit Chinese to Mandarian, as read in Cantonese or Hokkien it can be read with different syllables
MrRemakes
Vietnam did that, and it seems to have worked out pretty well. At least, it's better than using Chinese characters for writing in Vietnamese
HighFlyKai
Why they do that?
crayfishermetimbers
how is it better?
MrRemakes
My very vague understanding is that Chinese written language really didn't gel with the Vietnamese spoken language. Alphabet works better.
Xianimus
吃葡萄不吐葡萄皮
3Davideo
Guessing it's some sort of idiom?
Alfadorfox
I mean, it also *sounds* like you're taking a bite out of a grape and then spitting grape skins ptoo ptow pee
Xianimus
Not an idiom. It's a tongue twister in Mandarin
MylundTheMad
I don’t know what the Hel you just said, but given the context I think you’ve made your point
hippiteehoppitee
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PM5I0899Qqg
derfisher
Yupppp. I studied chinese for 3 years. Went for a semester abroad and had a whole practiced sentence planned out for a guy. His response:
derfisher
"What the shit did you just say?" So anyways I'm in healthcare consulting now.
Alfadorfox
Was it an angry "What the shit did you just say?" or a perplexed "What the shit did you just say?"
derfisher
Tones are so hard to string together. You really need to be around it to perfect it.