Read Three Body Problem if you wanna know how that goes
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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
In Chinese (like most dialects), North Pole is just 北极 (“Northern Extreme”), South Pole is 南极 (“Southern Extreme”). Arctic is just 北极 with the extra character 地区 meaning area (“Northern Extreme Area”), Antartica is 南极洲 (“Southern Extreme Continent”).
There’s no weird etymology involving bears lol
Maybe we should let someone from China or Taiwan contact the aliens?
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 10 months ago
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Tbf she was an alien-worshipping cultist
scratchee@feddit.uk 10 months ago
She sorta was the cult leader, iirc the aliens didn’t understand humans and trusted her organisation to decide how to get things done (at least until they finally realise how humans actually work and decide to just shut it all down), so the cult was probably her idea
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Heh, I understood this obscure sci-fi joke!
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wouldn’t call three body obscure
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You’d be surprised. I’ve got some friends who read all the time, including (but not exclusively) sci-fi, and they had never heard of it
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Maybe we should let someone from China contact the aliens?
FTFY
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 10 months ago
That’s what they said
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They removed Taiwan…
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We should let Taiwan or western Taiwan contact the aliens first.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Taiwan’s official name is “the republic of china”, “china” covers both places just fine.
Kushan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Someone once told me that the Chinese word for penguin translated to “business goose” and I cannot tell you how crestfallen I was when I looked it up and found out it wasn’t true.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I mean “企” character by itself isn’t really a word, but maybe the person thought of 企业 (Enterprise/Bussiness), which I would say technically that person isn’t like lying, just a misunderstanding of language.
But then again, I’ve only attended primary school grade-levels in China, so I’m no word expert either.
randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 10 months ago
Penguins are called 企鵝/企鹅 (qì’é, [tɕʰi˥˩ ɤ˧˥]) in Chinese. It would be better literally translated as standing goose. It just so happens to share the same character 企 with the word for business. Most people don’t know that 企 means standing anymore though.