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Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon Classics
- tokenadult 13y agoFor readers not familiar with the background of this post, I should explain that this linguistics blog post links to some Chinese-English glossaries of the punning expressions (often very crude) used to express politically dissident thoughts on the heavily censored microblogging services in China. The "grass-mud horse" is a famous character in a video that was actually publicly released on Chinese-language video-sharing services for a while (because the censors didn't recognize the pun and the political content of the video). The video went viral in China, and now "草泥马" ("grass-mud horse," a pun for "f___ your mother") is a term symbolic of all the puns used on China's microblogging services to express dissent.