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乖乖听话小同志，Cowbee 老师在讲课！(Listen here young comrades, Mr. Cowbee is teaching us a valuable lesson!) /s (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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Full thread (archived): https://archive.ph/TA3k4

ROFL this thread is hillarious. OP sure picked the wrong instance to ask their question.

(For fuck sakes: Please do not ask questions (expecially questions that may involve politics) in TankieLiteEdition.ml, aka: lemmy.ml)

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

i'm sorry but i'm downvoting for absolutely cursed mandarin even though i disagree with this cowbee claim.

YOU DON'T USE SPACES 😭 (unless you do fullwidth spaces between every character, which is the chinese version of mIxEd CaSe). to signal a pause just use the chinese comma instead. though for orthographical reasons many people often put spaces between latin-ish things (alphabet, digits) and characters which is completely fine and in fact i prefer it
小同志 is not— it just IS NOT! it's also singular instead of matching the much butter english's pluraling, which would add a -们 to the end and create the sense of patronizing community. not sure what you would replace it but maybe 同学们 ((my dear) students) or 少先队员们 (Young Pioneers, the CPC youth league's youth league. membership for elementary students is all but socially mandatory) might do.
i don't think you say ”讲课“ here? it's definitely a verb that exists but it just feels wrong here. maybe ”上课“
idk why but i feel like this scenario should use the past perfect -了 (has-- -ed) 'stead of the present continuous 在- (is- -ing) in chinese. if you use the past perfect you can change the final characters to 开堂了
乖乖听话 is not "listen here", it's... literally "be obedient" but in a sense that it's a juvenilizing phrase often used it on pets and kindergarteners. like the command you say before they do it and you say "good boy". outside of that it has slight dom/sub sexual connotations. the closest thing to a mocking "listen here" is the quite long “大家伙儿走过路过不要错过，快来看一看，瞧一瞧——”. i'd just omit it while adding the pluralization

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

老师对不起，我只上了二年级，然后就出国了。。。 🤷‍♂️

I'm basically just using english grammar in place of the missing knowledge lol

Also, I kinda suck at doing translations, as you can tell lol, cant quite find the right phrases to match (I know I could've use google translate, but nah, too lazy)

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

So you admit you're literate and thus not an emancipated peasant farmer? Opinions invalid, argument nullified, experience discredited. Checkmate shitlib capitalist.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Emm, i'm not seeing any issue here tbh. It's basically mean "please be obedient little comrade, mr.cowbee is giving a lecture here".

But yeah the english translation is kinda not match the tone of the mandarin.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 days ago

i mentioned what problems i have with the mandarin on its own