• Rem [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    "little inoculated warriors"

    Feel like the media often translates Chinese phrases or titles in such a way as to make it sound more exotic, ostentatious, or awkwardly phrased in English in a way they don't with other languages. But Idk, maybe it's actually how they would translate it themselves?

      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        It’s so funny too because if anything US culture loves to frame things as “warlike”.

        I'm pretty sure English uses basically the same idiom in the same way too, like when people refer to a child enduring some hardship as "a little trooper" or the like. In fact I feel like that applies in a lot of these cases, where both English and [insert bad country language] will have fundamentally the same idiom but it gets deliberated translated with wording that's more stilted in English to make it seem more alien and stop people from immediately catching that it's the same concept and wording as in idiomatic English.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          "BREAKING: According to sources behind the Chinese great firewall, netizens have been discussing thousands of instances of elderly individuals being "accelerated feet first into liquid containers". It is unknown whether this trend is a new extermination campaign by the CCP or something even more nefarious they've cooked up"

    • ToastGhost [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      its probably easier for them to do than with other languages that share an alphabet and sentence structure, another example of this is that Israeli publication that translates arabic news into english (forgot the name)

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    some kid cried because he was getting pricked, and that definitely never ever happened in America because we don't even take vaccines :think-about-it: , CHINA IS FUCKING FINISHED

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I will ALWAYS salute the little inoculated warrior, I don't give a fuck what the libs say. :deng-salute:

  • ToastGhost [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    manufacturing consent with the article images, no kids in america have ever freaked the fuck out about needles (definitely not me, nope, never)