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> “everyone knows what 4 / 6 /89 signifies” This annoyed me quite a bit. No I don’t. Most people probably don’t. It’s the date of Tiananmen Square.
by b_tterc_p 7y ago
> “everyone knows what 4 / 6 /89 signifies”
This annoyed me quite a bit. No I don’t. Most people probably don’t.
It’s the date of Tiananmen Square.
- JansjoFromIkea 7y agoWould Tiananmen Square not be your first guess for any date remotely close to 1989 though, given the context?
- yoz-y 7y agoBut a guess can be wrong. As somebody from Eastern Europe many other events come to my mind first in relation with 1989.
- andromeduck 7y agoAnd why would that be in any way relevant to an article about a Chinese ad targeting other Chinese in China? Contextually it's more than obvious for anyone even casually familiar with Chinese history which the audience would be.
- NikkiA 7y agoOr the fall of the berlin wall, depending on context.
- psychrometer 7y agoFor reference, that is 9 November 1989.
- NikkiA 7y agoYes, I'm aware, was just pointing out the 'in 1989' part has 2 distinct cultural-landmark events for me
- psychrometer 7y agoI gave the specific date so people can see the date for both in this thread.
- b_tterc_p 7y agoI could place it with only +- 15 years if I’m going to be honest.
- pessimizer 7y agoThat's like getting annoyed when people refer to 9/11.
- meddlepal 7y agoEh no. Let me also be clear I say this and cannot remember the date of Pearl Harbor, Cherynobl, or a number of other major events. 9/11 is a bit of a weird case in that the name of the event is also the event itself... that usually does not happen. Please label your dates folks (except 9/11 I guess...)
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoI remember the Fourth of July! And New Year's Day, and Cinco de Mayo. Not so weird?
- meddlepal 7y agoI don't usually remember Cinco de Mayo :>
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoBut you remember when it is? And who's buried in Grant's Tomb?
- meddlepal 7y agoGrant who?
- owl57 7y agoThat's just US-centric. For example, you probably don't know off the bat what happened on 22.06.41 either, but if someone buys an ad in a Russian newspaper encoding these figures, it would be perfectly reasonable to say "everyone knows".
- gwd 7y ago
- kdmccormick 7y ago> This annoyed me quite a bit. Cool. You're on a computer. Look it up. Now you know (probably better than if they had just said it outright). Why do so many people here choose to fill the comment sections with gripes about minor imperfections in articles, when those imperfections don't take away from the article as a whole? Especially when there's so much else worth discussing here.
- b_tterc_p 7y agoMinor complaint about making minor complaints
- heraclius 7y agoThe point isn’t that you know; it's that the vast majority of Hong Kong people know.
- andai 7y agoA Day to Remember: https://vimeo.com/44078865 https://vimeo.com/44078865
- wrycoder 7y ago04Jun1989
- FabHK 7y agoGenerally you're right, it's annoying if authors flaunt their brilliance by referring to esoteric knowledge, but you have to take into account the usual audience of that blog - it's language and (particularly Victor Mair's audience) China geeks. They know.
- nexus2045 7y agoHKers simply refer to the Tiananmen event as “64” in Cantonese, read separately (six four, not sixty four).