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Can you explain better? There are a lot of false pairs in Latin based/Romance languages. As an example if you can read the sequence b-u-r-r-o you get "burro",

• free_rms 6y ago
  In the first segment of the video, the Chinese for "Ramen" is two characters pronounced "Ra" "Mian". They're being used for sound, rather than meaning (although mian is often used as shorthand for "miantiao" = noodle, so it's a nice double entendre). Some of the Japanese speakers wound up interpreting the characters by meaning rather than sound, leading to hilarious translations.
  • howlgarnish 6y ago
    拉麺 is "pulled noodles", which is meaning, not sound. 麺 on its own already means noodles, but in China it has become ambiguous because it was simplified down to 面, which also means "face". (And that's the sole meaning in Japanese for the character, hence the confusion in the video.)