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[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Decided to research the etymology further and found this article: No, the Chinese word for "penguin" does not really mean "business goose", but what do you think?

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 23 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

My translator shows "enterprise", not "business".

While the words technically have the same meaning in this case, enterprise goose has a bit more pizazz!

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That makes me imagine penguins writing Java code.

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago

I just hear buzzwords “kubernetes! Scalable! Docker! AI performance! Latency! Enterprise! Reliable! DATABASE! MangoDB MariaDB! SQLite!

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What did China call them before the invention of the 3 piece suit?

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 28 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They didn't. 3 piece suits are older than penguins, because penguins are a type of bird, and birds were invented by the US government as surveillance drones.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

So those "bones" in roasted duck i get from my local Chinese place were microchips all along? Bastards!

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 hours ago

Mainly their antennae, occasionally they're solid state storage drives

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

鵝 -> 我鳥 (me bird)

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 12 hours ago

Goose is like Duck but the pro version