renzhe Posted November 10, 2011 at 04:39 PM Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 at 04:39 PM PIGS - 歐豬四國 I thought that the PIGS acronym was offensive enough (due to the ovious "accidental" connotations), but the translation is even worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbradfor Posted November 10, 2011 at 06:33 PM Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 at 06:33 PM I think the PIGS acronym is funny, and intentionally offensive due to the dislike many have for these countries throwing the entire world into financial uncertainty. I think the Chinese is especially clever due to the pun on 欧洲 vs 歐豬(zhou1 vs zhu1). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted November 10, 2011 at 11:06 PM Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 at 11:06 PM and intentionally offensive due to the dislike many have for these countries throwing the entire world into financial uncertainty Hmm, I wonder what intentionally offensive name I can come up with for that other big country that is also largely responsible for the world's current financial uncertainty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylee Posted November 10, 2011 at 11:44 PM Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 at 11:44 PM Re PIGS. I think there is a connection between the coining and translation of the terms PIGS and BRIC (see #609-610 of page 31 of this thread). Nobody seems to object to BRIC. 金磚四國 vs 歐豬四國, sound about right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbradfor Posted November 11, 2011 at 01:18 AM Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 at 01:18 AM I wonder what intentionally offensive name I can come up with for that other big country that is also largely responsible for the world's current financial uncertainty. Oh come on, we're responsible for 2009's financial uncertainty, not the current one. [Not that we're really helping the current either....] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heifeng Posted November 11, 2011 at 02:50 AM Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 at 02:50 AM hey, don't raise my hopes that there are actually new words on these posts when there are not 哼 j/k so back to things swine related...or not... pig iron： 生铁锭 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymoose Posted November 11, 2011 at 02:52 AM Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 at 02:52 AM I'm no economist, but isn't the current financial uncertainty just a continuation of the 2009 one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakura Posted November 11, 2011 at 07:20 AM Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 at 07:20 AM 干爹，in traditional script, it would have three meanings: to defend one's father;to offend one's father; to seek for a father. just for fun, because 干 has three meanings, to defend, to offend and to seek for Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbradfor Posted November 19, 2011 at 03:50 AM Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 at 03:50 AM Sorry heifeng! [i couldn't apologize until I had something to add.....] 累. Why 累, it's so common? 累累 both in second tone means "clusters of / piles of / heaps of" 累累 both in third tone means "again and again / innumerable / repeated / riddled with / accumulated / countless" 累累 both in fourth tone means "tired / exhausted / wretched / dejected / disappointed" And somehow people actually learn this language? Source:MDBG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuhaier Posted November 19, 2011 at 01:30 PM Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 at 01:30 PM to Kyle_Wang. Indeed, the BFF we called 死党 or just brother（哥们） if BFF means永远最好的朋友。闺蜜is only used among female. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelyus Posted November 20, 2011 at 07:29 PM Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 at 07:29 PM The 破音字 nature of 累 caused a few hiccoughs in yesterday's scriptural study meeting, where 缠累 "to entangle" came up (as in "the sin that easily entangles us" / "the sin which doth so easily beset us"), and it was transcribed into pīnyīn as chánlèi in the article but chánlěi in the transliterated scriptural editions. According to zDic, the 去声 (i.e. Mandarin fourth tone) version is primary, but the 上声 (Mandarin third tone) version is also found. Its meaning seems to be derived from 拖累 which is standardised in Mandarin as 上声 (third tone), hence the variation. According to CantoDict, Cantonese uses (陽)去聲 (Jyutping sixth tone) for 拖累, so I expect there's no variation there for 纏累 (which isn't in the dictionary). The 台語/華文線頂辭典 says the same (though the equivalent is a macron in pe̍h-ōe-jī, conventionally numbered 7th tone) for standard Taiwanese Minnan. This could be an instance of Mandarin free variation, albeit in a fairly specialist field... MDBG gives 绊住 bànzhù, 缠结 chánjié, and 牵缠 qiānchán for "entangle". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob07 Posted November 20, 2011 at 11:54 PM Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 at 11:54 PM Thought this one was funny - 力比多, libido. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heifeng Posted November 21, 2011 at 12:41 AM Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 at 12:41 AM 皮卡 (车)： pick up truck (well, one way to say it that is). Ran into it here: 稳、硬、新：解读皮卡市场“风骏现象” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted November 21, 2011 at 11:39 AM Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 at 11:39 AM 绞车 jiǎochē - winch. What other uses are there of 车 for machines that go round and round. 风车，纺车，车床 - any others? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiaocai Posted November 21, 2011 at 11:59 AM Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 at 11:59 AM 行(háng)车 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted November 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM Oooh, good one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heifeng Posted November 21, 2011 at 06:56 PM Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 at 06:56 PM 吊车diàochē ( 起重机）crane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbradfor Posted December 7, 2011 at 07:44 PM Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 at 07:44 PM 信用違約互換 -- CDS (Credit Default Swaps) Added for you, rezaf Feel free to join the "should you know what a CDS is" debate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezaf Posted December 7, 2011 at 08:06 PM Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 at 08:06 PM Thanks, but I don't know if I should categorize it as a word or a sentence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted December 7, 2011 at 11:36 PM Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 at 11:36 PM This one's brilliant. 耷. Pronounced dā. I'm not going to tell you what it means as you already know having looked at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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