Sorry, superking, it IS about showing off. Why would someone want to write in Chinese in an English forum, otherwise? Surely there are gadzillions of Chinese forums out there?
You don't see our resident experts in Mandarin, Ironlady, Taffy, Poagao, Dragonbones, et al waffling off, do you?
Untranslated Mandarin on the site. Polite request.
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Re: Untranslated Mandarin on the site. Polite request.
by jimipresley » 07 Jun 2012, 19:59
You can live here and have a great life and not be the least bit into living the local life. Clowns will try to diss you for it saying you gotta get down with the program, but fuck em, treat this place like a buffet and yous be on a diet. Take what you want and nothing extra, slam those oysters, but leave the bread sticks and dinner rolls behind. - Deuce Dropper
I'm much more of a nasty rotter in real life, especially with vapid or vacuous verbiage from the ill read & intellectually challenged. - TheGingerMan
I'm much more of a nasty rotter in real life, especially with vapid or vacuous verbiage from the ill read & intellectually challenged. - TheGingerMan
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Re: Untranslated Mandarin on the site. Polite request.
by urodacus » 07 Jun 2012, 20:03
jimipresley wrote: "ass".
Ha ha: you said Ass!
The prizes are a bottle of f*!@#$% SCOTCH and a box of cheap f!@#$#$ CIGARS!
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Re: Untranslated Mandarin on the site. Polite request.
by superking » 07 Jun 2012, 20:10
jimipresley wrote:Sorry, superking, it IS about showing off. Why would someone want to write in Chinese in an English forum, otherwise? Surely there are gadzillions of Chinese forums out there?
You don't see our resident experts in Mandarin, Ironlady, Taffy, Poagao, Dragonbones, et al waffling off, do you?
True, I'm just trying to ask politely and keep the request polite. It's an experiment I am working on.
There are millions of people in the world. And none of those people is an extra. They're all leads in their own stories.
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If you lose one sense, your other senses are enhanced. That's why people with no sense of humour have an increased sense of self-importance.
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Re: Untranslated Mandarin on the site. Polite request.
by ironlady » 07 Jun 2012, 21:34
Totally agree that everything posted in Mandarin (or any other language, except for the German forum which is set up for that purpose) should be translated/glossed. (And use proper Pinyin while yer at it...but that's another issue. 
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In the Learning Chinese forum, at least, I think we have been fairly consistent about asking people to translate or going back in and "helping" with translations or Romanization. It's in our forum sticky rules (not that anyone reads THAT...) Hopefully other forum mods will agree. If there's something of the short-comment variety that needs translating and the mod can't do it, they need only PM one of us.
The "report" button would also work -- no need to report a cataclysm, just say there's stuff that needs to be translated. But posters who know enough to post in Chinese should have enough courtesy to help the community understand what they're posting, IMO.
)In the Learning Chinese forum, at least, I think we have been fairly consistent about asking people to translate or going back in and "helping" with translations or Romanization. It's in our forum sticky rules (not that anyone reads THAT...) Hopefully other forum mods will agree. If there's something of the short-comment variety that needs translating and the mod can't do it, they need only PM one of us.
The "report" button would also work -- no need to report a cataclysm, just say there's stuff that needs to be translated. But posters who know enough to post in Chinese should have enough courtesy to help the community understand what they're posting, IMO.
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Re: Untranslated Mandarin on the site. Polite request.
by Charlie Jack » 08 Jun 2012, 21:29
What if the only known source (the only one known to the poster, that is) of a piece of news or other information is in Mandarin, and the discoverer of the source can pretty much see the gist of the pertinent part(s) of it but can't properly translate it?
In that case don't post it, but just link to it? Or don't even link to it? I'm not protesting, just asking, for my own future guidance.
In that case don't post it, but just link to it? Or don't even link to it? I'm not protesting, just asking, for my own future guidance.
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Re: Untranslated Mandarin on the site. Polite request.
by ironlady » 08 Jun 2012, 21:52
This happens a lot with breaking news -- usually the contributor posts the article and asks if someone could translate it. I've seen some posters give the Google translation but that usually ends up being more for laughs.
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