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I’ve got to believe Sichuan food would be more popular if 口水鸡 was less often translated as “saliva chicken” than “mouth-wateringly good chicken”
by peteretep 6y ago
I’ve got to believe Sichuan food would be more popular if 口水鸡 was less often translated as “saliva chicken” than “mouth-wateringly good chicken”
- mc32 6y agoMaybe "drool chicken" would be a compromise?
- hinoki 6y agoGoogle translates “口水鶏” as mouthwater chicken, which still lacks some appeal :)
- gibolt 6y agoMouth liquid fowl sounds quite appetizing
- karmasimida 6y agoWell I, for one, have long believing that this mouth-watering chicken recipe isn't complete/authentic without the grandma spitting the last ingredient into the glorious final mix. And I understand Chinese pretty well.
- jjoonathan 6y agoAnother one: the Chinese word for product/good, which is a bit more generic than its English counterpart and might be translated as "it/thing". One of the definitions under that broad umbrella is "baby" (analogous to "little thing" I suppose) -- and for the longest time, despite year after year of Google publishing advanced neural translation models, google translate reliably chose "baby" as the translation in the context of online commerce. I bought babies, got good deals on babies, and even tried to return a defective baby once, but it didn't work out. It looks like this has now been fixed, but it was good fun for a long time.
- fireattack 6y agoI have no idea what word do you mean. 东西? 玩意?
- jjoonathan 6y ago子 IIRC.
- swiley 6y agoMy Chinese is almost uselessly bad but I still read that as "mouth water something."