Hi polyglots. I'm hopin' you can help me out. If your willing, please share an insulting obscenity, whichever is your fav, its translation, and in this format:
!MILKRIBS4K is a(an)_____________!
or perhaps:
!MILKRIBS4K sucks(eats, licks,etc)_____________!
Xia xia!
Danke!
Gracias!
arigato!
Shokran!
Kap kun Khap!
Thanks.
Besides that, I've just installed Taiwanese IME. How the fuck does one type in exclamation and question signs there? Shift button just doesn't fucking work unless I press it once more to switch to normal input (and then I have to press it again to switch back to Chinese characters). This is retarded.
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Anonymous2009-04-25 17:15
>>12
I know that Taiwanese use the traditional Asian quotation marks (「」) instead of the Western " like the mainland Chinks do, since they were the part of the country that didn't participate in that whole "LOL LET'S BECOME EUROPEANS" inferiority complex the Chinese had back in the day (still have?).
So it might be that they don't even have a Western-style exclamation/question mark.
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Anonymous2009-04-28 13:12
>>13
Because surely replacing typographically more complex structures with simpler ones of equal expressive power means inferiority complex, right? Go choke on your extra brush strokes, faggot.
Japanese keeps the most traditional Asian punctuation ever. From this point I don't even really feel Traditional Chinese is that much traditional, haha.
>>14
staging a nation-wide cultural revolution and even fucking up their writing system (making the country's literary legacy unreadable to most people), only to remove themselves from their own culture and replace it with stuff from Europe does mean they had apparently developed quite the inferiority complex after being vassals of the colonial powers for almost a century, yes. equal expressive power
lol no. Often the commies would take two characters and replace them with one that had a similar meaning and/or pronunciation, but wouldn't carry the difference in connotation at all.
And with their "simplification" they've actually introduced many irregularities into the otherwise fairly consistent system that is the hanzi, making them much harder to learn than Taiwanese or even Japanese characters.
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Anonymous2009-05-06 14:03
BAAAWWWW EVIL COMMIES REMOVED CENTURIES-OLD REDUNDANCIES AND IMPROVED LITERACY BAAWWWWW THAT SUCKS BAWWWWW