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If you speak Chinese, you'll find it's very easy to squeeze sentences in exact same characters. Almost all poems in China (except very modern ones) do this. It
by namelosw 7y ago
If you speak Chinese, you'll find it's very easy to squeeze sentences in exact same characters. Almost all poems in China (except very modern ones) do this.
It's so easy that people in forums do this a along - being sarcastic or just funny. You could have positive meaning literally, but hide dirty words in structures.
Also because it's so easy that this was defined as serious crime in many dynasties. There were even people committed it by coincidence were sentenced to death.
- dspillett 7y ago> committed it by coincidence were sentenced to death So they sentenced themselves to death with an unfortunate sentence structure.
- d33 7y ago...the sentenced sentenced themselves to a death sentence with an unfortunate sentence structure?
- namelosw 7y agoThat's a good one. My English is not sufficient to come up with this. There's also a Chinese pun story[0] with 92 characters with the same sound but different tone. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...
- zhoujianfu 7y agoI believe the correct joke is simply: So they sentenced themselves to death.
- dspillett 7y agoProbably, I have a tendency to overcomplicate things, particularly when explaining or otherwise talking to others, which can really wreck jokes...
- _underfl0w_ 7y agoTalk about a death sentence
- rv-de 7y agoThey literally did.
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- Giornito 7y agoI wonder if sentencing like these still happen today.
- namelosw 7y agoAs far as I know, no.