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MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 week agoWhat language is this from? Is it a variant of Mandarin or another Chinese language?
My reasons for confusion 头水:my Pinyin keyboard doesn’t even want to write this. Is this supposed to be 口水?
小豆脑:is this some metaphor?
‘My saliva is gone. I want that those electrolytes give me tofu brain [very soft tofu for other people reading], very constipated’
I’m a very confused Chinese learner.
Edit before responding: I think I understand the metaphor now lol
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
It’s supposed to be the quote from Tropic Thunder where Robert Downey Jr’s character is speaking Mandarin very poorly, but I couldn’t find the actual words he spoke so I just machine translated it, which I think keeps the spirit of bad translation lol.
See if you can figure it out
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The pronunciation is awful to the point of gibberish, but the subtitles are vaguely correct from the parts that are somewhat understandable.