https://twitter.com/china_takes/status/1429224907372515331
hmmm I wonder if that's simply a cipher for something in Chinese
Chinese food enjoyer here. This is absolutely real Chinese written by a Chinese person.
Chinese whisperers practitioner here. That handwriting looks like the most authentically Chinese thing ever. Actually the bottom line says: "Please Mr. Biden help us! Our people are yearning for freedom! Please bomb everything in China to a smoldering heap of rubble so we can enjoy liberty and IMF structural adjustment programmes! We will greet you with flowers!"
Chinese major here. Hoping to make lieutenant colonel soon. That Google Translate result is incorrect, the text actually says, ":LIB:".
"Authentic Chinese handwriting" my ass. Those characters look about as good as my kanji handwriting and I've only been taking Japanese class for a year.
Yeah, a twitter person compared it to a Chinese fifth-grader's handwriting.
I'm like half sure that reddit commenter was just going along with the bit.
Another thing I just noticed that totally gives it away is that the character that has the 辶 radical is written like it was copied off of computer typeface, when it's handwritten it's supposed to look like more of a squiggly line.
Lots of Chinese people are terrible with Chinese. It's one of their little dirty secrets that they won't tell anybody, but that is 100% the case. It was a landmark day the first time I saw two Chinese people get into an argument about how a character should be written. It was such a cathartic moment, a relief that it wasn't just me.
That said, this looks like either a 8-year-old's or an adult foreign learner's handwriting. It's shaky and uncomfortably legible.
definitely adult learner, I don't know Chinese but the lines themselves are thin and fairly controlled even if the characters are sloppy.
I guess you have never gone through the Chinese education system, my teacher would throw me a shoe if I wrote 相 wrong. And no, write characters properly is important, 目信 (what he wrote) means nothing. You shouldn't be making so brave statement such as "writing characters properly is nerd shit" when you probably barely know any Chinese.
