SinoDefence Forum

88417240

Here to see a number of domestic can not see, I feel very fresh

感谢CCTV

bd popeye

What are you trying to say? Please use your very best English. This is an English language Chinese military forum.

By the way we have a large number of Chinese people in this forum from all over the World.

__________________
Discover the Chinese and World Military picture threads!


To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


..And the Chinese Daily Life Photo thread!!


To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


..And don't forget

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


"I am what I am.... 'Dat's all what I am"

88417240

I just take a look at

Autumn Child

Mostly overseas chinese active here...though i wonder how many members are accessing this forum directly from China like me...

though you won't see too much new things here in term of politics which is what the chinese govt are censoring. You will realize that our hardworking moderators are more effective at sensoring politics here . Might be one of the most important reason why this forum is accessable from china and hopefully will still be in the future.

88417240

I would like to see that a number of different points of view

Propagandalass

Its very International, most mods seem to be 'Foreigners' (from Chinese point of view) though.

I also wonder how many are actual Mainlanders. I'm technically not.
I think he means its good to see some 'kinsmen' around, the Chinese bits just mean 'thanks'. Sometimes Chinese people on the internet are not so eloquent in expressing themselves in English, I've also had my "broken Engrish" phase. Okay I'm probably still having it :P (But you'll have to ask him yourself what he's thanking CCTV for XD)

88417240

In fact, China does not have imagined then the powerful

Propagandalass

Thats quite broken there gege~

Are you trying to say "China could not have imagined to become so powerful"?
Or perhaps "The World would never have expected China to become so powerfu"?
Or "China couldn't dream to come near as powerful (as some other force)"?

Broken Engrish is hard to translate when the text is short and its hard to determine the context from the conversation XD

T-U-P

alright, you mind providing a chinese version of what you just said?

vesicles

probably "then" is the name of a person and he/she has a title of "the powerful", like Alexander, the great......

And the CCTV thing is a little weird......

panzerkom

google language tools for the win?

you guys gotta check it out, it does the most hilarious things.

Propagandalass

Oh yes, and babelfishing also gives 'interesting' results.

bd popeye

babel fish is aptly named. Nothing but babel...Is there truly a decent Chinese to English translator on line??

__________________
Discover the Chinese and World Military picture threads!


To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


..And the Chinese Daily Life Photo thread!!


To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


..And don't forget

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


"I am what I am.... 'Dat's all what I am"

Propagandalass

Only these payed subscription ones that offer a human translator. But I never tried those so I can't tell. Its probably very difficult because subtle ways of mentioning things go lost.

Example: "Barking up the wrong tree" would be an understandable proverb by english speakers, after translating it to chinese it becomes literal and people go "lolwut?". Chinese (elaborate ones) use a lot of nods to philosophers, politicians and historic (or legendary like journy to the west or three kingdoms) events. Just because we have tons of it after 4000+ years of history (just see how much quotes you get alone from 200 years of US history with general Grant, Lincoln and whatnot, see how awefully much references we have available XD? Just Sun Tzu, Mencius or Konfucius alone suffices to cover everything ever said by anyone.)

But the most elaborate Chinese gets reduced to a "internet noob" if he's forced to use english and only knows broken engrishy ways of talking... XDDD

But for the average guy on the web online translators do go well, provided he doesn't 1337 and uses correct grammar.

SteelBird

He's a new member, isn't he? I read a few posts of his, and simply just don't understand what he is saying. Maybe, like you said, he better express himself in Chinese.

I found something interesting in this forum; two most important moderates, Popeye and Golly, are not Chinese nor can they speak/read/write Chinese.