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Babylonian Chaos - Where all languages are allowed - February 12, 2025
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[Hindi? > English] Chalk Writing
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Comment by kungming2 at 12/03/2025 at 19:55 UTC
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Modern Standard Chinese ("written language/Chinese" in your post) is largely based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, and that's pretty much what is written throughout the Sinosphere for people of all sorts of Sinitic language backgrounds. In that sense, if you're reading a bog-standard Chinese text, there's no inherent way of telling what Sinitic background the person is. People who have Hokkien, Hakka, Cantonese, Sichuanese, Beijing, Northeast backgrounds etc. will be writing very similarly and thus it wouldn't be readily distinguishable, especially in formal writing where adherence to the standard is more pronounced.
Where you *can* tell someone's language background is a specific area is by the choice of words they use in writing. E.g. if someone in writing uses 塞車 it's fairly clear they have a Southern background (Standard Chinese is 堵車), or if someone wrote 整乾淨了 maybe they have a Northeastern background.
Note that this is separate from Written Cantonese[1], which is a written form of vernacular Cantonese, or any other form of writing other Sinitic languages.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Cantonese
Comment by kungming2 at 12/03/2025 at 19:36 UTC
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!translated
Comment by kungming2 at 12/03/2025 at 19:35 UTC
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!id:ja Confirm !translated
Comment by kungming2 at 12/03/2025 at 17:54 UTC
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Prefix with `公元` (CE). 公元一百五零年...
Also, the quantity would be more likely to be 一百五十年 (instead of zero for the last digit).
Comment by kungming2 at 11/03/2025 at 22:01 UTC
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I think it's incredibly unlikely that he's *fighting* in a "China". In Taiwan/ROC to support / maintain American weapons? Yes, that would be possible (though not openly as an overt American presence would not be compatible with the Taiwan Relations Act.) But there isn't any fighting going on in the area, certainly not "since" 2008, especially since 2008-2016 saw pretty good relations between China and Taiwan under President Ma.
Comment by kungming2 at 11/03/2025 at 02:58 UTC
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Confirm !translated, and !id:lzh
Comment by kungming2 at 06/03/2025 at 21:12 UTC
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People often wear them when they’re sick (precautionary measure), so if you have a cold it’s pretty polite to wear a mask to shield others from your stuff. But I remember being back in Beijing several years ago the primary reason to wear masks (especially KN95) was due to high AQI levels. Wouldn’t be surprised if the use is less now as Beijing’s air has improved over the years.
Comment by kungming2 at 06/03/2025 at 07:57 UTC
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To be honest, that’s not really a big cultural thing in Chinese culture. Obviously this varies by socioeconomic status, region, etc. but people really don’t have the same sensitivity re: air coming from one’s body in the same way in parts of the west. Like someone burping after a meal at a restaurant, I wouldn’t consider it rude at all in a Chinese context and would just ignore it.
Comment by kungming2 at 03/03/2025 at 19:02 UTC
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!id:ja
Comment by kungming2 at 03/03/2025 at 19:01 UTC*
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The middle, unfortunately. OP has created over a hundred accounts asking about strange stuff like this each time.
Comment by kungming2 at 03/03/2025 at 05:42 UTC
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Comment by kungming2 at 03/03/2025 at 05:25 UTC
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서기 (書記) - secretary, perhaps? !doublecheck
Comment by kungming2 at 28/02/2025 at 03:51 UTC
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When used for produce, 有機 also means something *doesn’t have* pesticides…
Comment by kungming2 at 27/02/2025 at 19:36 UTC
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No worries, just wanted to make sure your request gets to the right people. !id:sq
Comment by kungming2 at 27/02/2025 at 19:28 UTC
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Did you mean Albanian?
Comment by kungming2 at 26/02/2025 at 22:36 UTC
11 upvotes
Confirm !translated
Comment by kungming2 at 26/02/2025 at 19:46 UTC
37 upvotes
What’s with this romanization? It’s wrong even if you’re planning on using the little-used Tongyong Pinyin.
Comment by kungming2 at 25/02/2025 at 08:42 UTC
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This post is locked unfortunately because non-r/translator regulars can't stop "hurr durr it's the One Ring". You're really not being creative and fake translations are strictly prohibited on this subreddit; even in jest.
Comment by kungming2 at 25/02/2025 at 03:58 UTC
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Not if it’s an SSD connected v USB3, which would have way faster read/write speeds compared to a card. Done it for years.
Comment by kungming2 at 25/02/2025 at 03:23 UTC
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Is the USB drive a thumb drive? If so, I’d expect it to be just as long-lived as the microSD. Honestly, the easiest way to have a more robust system is install everything on a M.2 external drive and just run everything off of that.
Comment by kungming2 at 25/02/2025 at 00:26 UTC
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It’s way too big for OP’s use case. 15.6 inches vs 7.
Comment by kungming2 at 23/02/2025 at 20:38 UTC
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!id:zxx
Comment by kungming2 at 22/02/2025 at 18:48 UTC
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!translated
Comment by kungming2 at 22/02/2025 at 18:48 UTC
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It would be from the official Hakka dictionary maintained by the ROC/TW. Might be bad data there.
Comment by kungming2 at 22/02/2025 at 18:27 UTC
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New language code elements: