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Can I just say I really enjoy the Chinese-inflected English in use here. Phrases like "Ten years of sharpening the sword" and "application treasures" sound like
by dash2 7y ago
Can I just say I really enjoy the Chinese-inflected English in use here. Phrases like "Ten years of sharpening the sword" and "application treasures" sound like some venerable Chinese saying, and I like to imagine the CEO sipping tea ceremonially as he dictates into the Apple watch on his silk-sleeved wrist.
- yorwba 7y ago"Application treasures" 应用宝 yìng yòng bǎo is a pun on "application package" (i.e. APK) 应用包 yìng yòng bāo and the name of Tencent's app store. "Ten years sharpening the sword" is a line from a Tang dynasty poem by Jia Dao. The Wikipedia article on him has a translation of the complete stanza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia_Dao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia_Dao