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I get that the author wanted to express frustration and be clever, and he had limited examples of “number-based slang” to do so with, but I agree with the paren
by tlrobinson 8y ago
I get that the author wanted to express frustration and be clever, and he had limited examples of “number-based slang” to do so with, but I agree with the parent comment that calling Americans “idiots” and telling them to “go die” seems excessively hostile.
Though I also can’t imagine “go die” has the same force in Chinese that it would have in English if it’s a common slang.
- RandomBacon 8y agoThat's my thought too. Apparently HN does not agree which I think is sad. It's interesting information in the article, but being hostile just because the Internet was pioneered in the U.S. and thus a lot of U.S. customs are baked in seems excesive. I like anime, but I'm not hostile to the Japanese because the shows I like are spoken in Japanese with only English subtitles.
- mikeash 8y agoAnime isn’t deeply embedded in society the way the internet is now. Imagine if you had to learn some Japanese just to access your bank account or buy plane tickets.
- RandomBacon 8y agoI have (Japanese, Spanish, and Korean). I didn't hate the host cultures because of it.
- mikeash 8y agoI don’t mean imagine if you had to do that in order to live in those countries. I mean, imagine if you had to do that in the US, to access your American bank down the street.
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- kev6168 8y agoI think you are correct that '0748' is not a very serious/forceful phrase. Probably only a lighthearted slang used by young netizens in China.
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