"I am Chairman Mao's Bitch"

Pharyngula 2021-06-17

Summary:

Jeff DeMarco saw this sign in the window of a building in Hong Kong’s Sheung Wan district in 2009: Jeff writes: I’m not familiar with the first two hanzi, but the rest of the line seems to be “with her husbands…”.  I am curious as to how that becomes “I am Chairman Mao’s bitch!” The Chinese says: […]

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=51200&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-am-chairman-maos-bitch

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

06/17/2021, 04:18

Date published:

06/16/2021, 19:00