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Long time no see has a popculture origin!?
by 3836293648 3y ago
Long time no see has a popculture origin!?
- riffraff 3y agono, but it was (supposedly[0]) some native american english pidgin. I only meant that most people don't think they're citing native americans speaking broken english when using it today. [0] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/104145/what-is-the-source-of-long-time-no-see-and-when-did-it-enter-u-s-english https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/104145/what-is-t... someone says it was popularized by detective stories in the '40s tho :)
- paradox460 3y agoIt's basically a perfect translation of Chinese 好久不见