Fennel fry stupid eggs

Language Log 2013-04-10

Summary:

Meena Vathyam sent in this photograph from Shanghaiist:This one is very easy to solve. The sentence actually means:huíxiāng chǎo bènjī dàn 茴香炒笨鸡蛋("fried free range eggs with fennel")The translator misparsed the last part as bèn jīdàn 笨 鸡蛋 ("stupid egg") instead of the intended bènjī dàn 笨鸡 蛋 ("eggs from free range chickens").Bènjī 笨鸡 ("free [...]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4563

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Victor Mair

Date tagged:

04/10/2013, 00:22

Date published:

04/09/2013, 20:26