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Ah, I see. That makes it so much better. I am glad he'll only destroy them without crushing their bones.
by sachdevap 7y ago
Ah, I see. That makes it so much better. I am glad he'll only destroy them without crushing their bones.
- throwaway_bad 7y agoI am not a native english speaker so I don't know if you're trying to take my words literally too. It's just conveying an intensity, not any specific action. Just like how "wiping the floor" with someone doesn't mean you're going to beat someone unconscious and use their body as a literal mop. That would warrant immediately calling the police or justifiable homicide in self-defense. That's obviously an insane way to interpret that phrase but that's what I am seeing here. It's still a menacing threat but no chinese person is interpreting it as tanks being imminent (like how many english speakers would interpret the threat of literal crushed bones). If tanks do roll in, it is an escalation of the current situation but it's nowhere close to what is being said here.
- shard972 7y agoHe's using sarcasm to point out destruction is still destruction, whether or not bones are broken.
- ohnidoertous 7y agoImaging someone translating “United we stand, divided we fall” into “If we don’t work togeter, he’s going to split you into pieces.”