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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 12 points 1 month ago (11 children)

So.... No one in here has tried to learn Mandarin in here huh?

Let's talk about Hanji, heck worse let's talk about:

四是四,十是十,十四是十四,四十是四十;
谁把十四说“十适”,就打他十四;
谁把四十说“适十”,就打他四十

Which is pronounced like:

sì shì sì, shí shì shí, shísì shì shísì, sìshí shì sìshí;
shéi bǎ shísì shuō “shíshì”, jiù dǎ tā shísì,
shéi bǎ sìshí shuō “shìshí”, jiù dǎ tā sìshí.

[–] owsei@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Oh this is the lion rock pasta cave thing?

[–] Mikrochip@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I don't know all the words in this, but I doubt it; it's a classic Chinese tongue twister.

The first line translates to "four is four, ten is ten, fourteen is fourteen, forty is forty. On the second & third line it's something along the lines of "whoever says 40/14 says <X>, <sth> 40/14", as far as I can tell.

Spoiler

No, I don't want to use a translator, where's the fun in that?

[–] owsei@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Oohh thanks

I've found the poem, I thought it was this one because of the amount of "shi"s. But yours is way bigger

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