China Adoption, Chinese Infant Adoption

12/01/06

Dangers of translation

Posted by : grant in China Adoption Blog at 11:52 am , 240 words, 87 views
Categories: Irrelevancies

A blogroll:

The Decadent Western Dog is young and stupid. Or "Young" and "Stupid." In Chinese. Because his name is Ben Shaw. (Xiao Ben).

I'm sorry things didn't work out between Violet Eclipse and Da Shan. They made such a cute couple. (Traveling parents: you remember Da Shan. That Canadian guy on the Chinese channel who spoke fluent Mandarin. That guy. The enthusiastic one.)

Ever wonder what would happen if your computer broke in China and you couldn't find anyone who spoke English to help you fix it? Lost Laowai empowers you with a linguistic guide to building your own computer in China. He also gives links to price guides for components, so you'll be able to shop wisely. Now go get yourself some electronic wonders. (Me, I just wish there were literal translations of the components... "yīnxiāng" means "speakers" -- but what does "yīn" and "xiāng" mean? I suppose I could just look it up....)

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Not a blog, but a collection of actual Hong Kong movie subtitles in English. Sort of. "The bullets inside are very hot. Why do I feel so cold?" is positively poetic.

Marmite, of course, transcends all barriers, cultural, linguistic and otherwise. As gorgeous Pomegranate baby Xue demonstrates.

And just in case it's not obvious to those of you reading this thing, there's no such thing as a singular Chinese mindset. Many people=many minds. Individuals, you know. Sharing a language.

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Comment from: bugmenot [Member]

How about MySpace coming to China...

http://tinyurl.com/y2hfyk

I wonder if China's internet filters (which may or may not now be in effect (see the wikipedia story from last week)) knows how to recognize dissident speech when it is written in 3l1t3 style? I wonder how many friend Chairman Mao will have?

Matt

Permalink 12/01/06 @ 13:36

Comment from: grant [Member]

· http://china.adoptionblogs.com/

IM IN UR TIANANMEN

FALUN UR GONG

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You know about the elgooG dodge, right? I loved hearing about that when it came out.

I'll have to check on the internet filters story -- I doubt anything they do is going to be permanent, unless they've just thrown their hands up at the futility of trying to bottle L337.

Permalink 12/01/06 @ 18:18

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