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「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」@piefed.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Why does songs from non-English countries have random English words? Can you imagine if English songs randomly have Chinese words?

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Why does songs from non-English countries have random English words? Can you imagine if English songs randomly have Chinese words?

「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」@piefed.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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Usually its like just a few words sprinkled in, or at most like one or two lines…

Literally I feel like they’re just trying to say: “Hey this is a foreign language I’m sooo cooool!”

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    Okay it’s not fake-fake, just so awful you need a PhD in Chinese Language to understand it

    You may enjoy fireflychinese.com: Translating the Chinese in Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity. With video clips of each scene, notes on word usage, and in-depth (over)analysis of Malcolm Reynolds’s heroic quest to butcher the Chinese language—one curse at a time.

    see also https://gamerant.com/firefly-most-common-mandarin-phrases-translation-meaning/

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