anicent chinese wisdom is sometimes flawed

Description: Three panels. The first panel is a picture of a sign on a window with Chinese that tells people to not to throw things out the window. There is a poor English translation on the sign that says "Do not shit in the air like a god." The second panel is D.W. from Arthur glaring at the sign. The third panel is D.W. saying "That sign won't stop me because I can't read!"

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lugal@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Is that just a terrible translation or a metaphor non Chinese people don't get or something in between?

einlander@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y

Google translates it completely different.

lobelia581@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y

It should be a bad translation but some things are beyond my mortal comprehension

lobelia581@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 2y

Found these comments for more context

cannibalkitteh@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 2y

My ascent to godhood, foiled by a sign!

toed@lemmy.l0l.city · 4 pts · 2y

I am the god of hell fire and I bring you

gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Does anyone here actually speak Chinese? What does it really say