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Hraesvelg

08-13-2009 02:19 AM

Language Log

Anyone else read it? I'm not a linguist by any stretch, but it can be an interesting read. I've always liked this gem:

http://158.130.17.5/~myl/languagelog...es/005195.html

Ralath

08-13-2009 02:20 AM

I ate Jew's Ear while I was in China... lulz.

Ralath

08-13-2009 02:22 AM

Also, 干 (gan4) can mean, "to do", which is where I'm guessing the other word comes from.

Hessah

08-13-2009 02:26 AM

I'm rather surprised that the machine translated 干 as "fuck" coz you would only interpret it as fuck in colloquial language, which I thought machines are not suppose to do O_o

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