Death By Irony
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Post by Death By Irony on Sept 5, 2007 14:35:45 GMT -5
I was born in Taiwan (Guomingdang for the win! Beat back those evil commies! ;D) and due to various circumstances I am still quite fluent in Mandarin Chinese. I'll be glad to serve as the language consultant. (Mind you, since I grew up in Taiwan, I'm not familiar with the modern idioms used over in Mainland China, so my accuracy is not 100%, but I can type in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese as necessary.)
A few phrases to get everyone started (without tones):
wo shi wu gu de - I am innocent
biao jue - vote
ren zha - scum
ke yi - suspicious
(Edited to fix the romanization. It's romanized as the KMT in Taiwan, but technically the pronunciation is closer to the pinyin rendition.)
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Post by NAF1138 on Sept 5, 2007 14:52:26 GMT -5
Thanks Dot, PM me and Kat if you think of anything that would be good to add for the filters (not profanity necessarily but some Mandarin that would be obvious enough in context to be consistently replaced)
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Post by Boozahol Squid, P.I. on Oct 3, 2007 18:49:59 GMT -5
Hey, Dot! Can you tell me what a rough translation of my pet name for Idle thoughts (Mr. Fucker) would be in Mandarin?
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Death By Irony
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Post by Death By Irony on Oct 4, 2007 17:34:44 GMT -5
Well...unfortunately, I don't know that many juicy cuss words in Chinese (came with the territory of being raised very sheltered), so the closest I can think of is:
gan4 xian1 sheng1
(gan4 literally means "do", but it also carries the same sexual connotation that English equivalent does, and xian1 sheng1 is just an honorific roughly meaning "Mister".)
I'll post the characters once I'm on a computer that can handle Chinese text.
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Post by Boozahol Squid, P.I. on Oct 5, 2007 22:17:46 GMT -5
The numbers refer to tonal shifts?
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Death By Irony
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Post by Death By Irony on Oct 5, 2007 22:33:19 GMT -5
The numbers refer to tonal shifts? Yup. BTW, sorry about the delay. The characters are: 幹先生
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Post by Boozahol Squid, P.I. on Oct 6, 2007 1:04:36 GMT -5
Thanks so much, dot.
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