Two for the toilet
Language Log 2024-11-01
Summary:
We've looked at the Chinese of the first item en passant before (here), but not in detail, and the English of this version merits investigation: wénmíng rúcè文明如厕"Be civilized when you go to the toilet". wénmíng 文明 ("civilized; civilization")rúcè 如厕 (lit., "like a toilet"; as a classicism going back at least two millennium, however, it means […]