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shitu, not the best choice of word.
by cliveowen 12y ago
shitu, not the best choice of word.
- vvvv 12y agoI don't know why you got donwvoted, your comment is perfectly valid. Plenty of case studies about Anglo-Saxons making silly linguistic faux pas in other countries, including China. China has a huge domestic market but the companies there will eventually also have business case studies warning against "shitty" linguistic mistakes ;)
- ewoodrich 12y agoThis, however, is a site in Mandarin targeted at Chinese. "Shitu" is not intended for Western markets, it just happens to appear in Latin script in a URI.
- btian 12y agoIt makes perfect sense in Mandarin, and since it's a Chinese site, I'll call it a reasonable choice of word.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoI'm sure we could form a pejorative from it. Like 你是土, pinyin is just so ambiguous.
- yen223 12y ago你是吐, for when you want to look for a spitting image of yourself ;)
- yeukhon 12y agoIt means "learn picture" in Chinese. It's in the title. 識圖 even though the pinyin is not that pleasant to people who knows English, Baidu is a Chinese search engine and most of the users are Chinese speaking users. Furthermore, as a Chinese speaking person I can well make fun of it by saying "shxt" every time the engine spits out the right image!
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoWell, to be fair, Baidu is going to use simplified characters, not traditional ones, given their mainland focus.
- yeukhon 12y agoYes I am aware of that. I just happen to be a Traditional Chinese writer :D but either writing system shouldn't matter.