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Where does all the weird Chinese component terminology come from?

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TimFox:
David Henry Hwang is an American playwright of Chinese ancestry, best known as the author of "M Butterfly".
Back in 2011, we attended the premiere production of "Chinglish" in Chicago, done in English and Mandarin.
The plot involves the interaction between an American businessman in China, and his translators and intended Chinese customers.
It had an interesting use of "supertitles" (which are now ubiquitous in opera performances):  the titles showed the literal translation back into English of the Chinese translator's translation of the English text.
"I represent a family-owned company in Ohio" became "He is from an insignificant company"

coppice:

--- Quote from: TimFox on November 19, 2023, 10:47:16 pm ---David Henry Hwang is an American playwright of Chinese ancestry, best known as the author of "M Butterfly".
Back in 2011, we attended the premiere production of "Chinglish" in Chicago, done in English and Mandarin.
The plot involves the interaction between an American businessman in China, and his translators and intended Chinese customers.
It had an interesting use of "supertitles" (which are now ubiquitous in opera performances):  the titles showed the literal translation back into English of the Chinese translator's translation of the English text.
"I represent a family-owned company in Ohio" became "He is from an insignificant company"

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Translation is a very imprecise tool. The fact that many of the "great works" to read in English started life in Russian has as much to do with the translation work falling into the hands of great bilingual writers as it does to the original Russian authors.

SiliconWizard:
The fun thing is that it absolutely doesn't prevent them from having an impressive economic growth with international business.

EPAIII:
Nor will it prevent an economic collapse there. It will be interesting to see which predictions come true.

I am neither predicting nor encouraging anything here, just an observer.




--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on November 19, 2023, 11:46:07 pm ---The fun thing is that it absolutely doesn't prevent them from having an impressive economic growth with international business.

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pdenisowski:

--- Quote from: harerod on November 17, 2023, 06:25:23 pm ---pdenisowski, first of all - thanks for your effort. Out of curiosity - have you met Jim Breen? He is a hero for many students of Japanese.

--- End quote ---

Jim and I go way, way back (early 1990s).  In fact, I think I was Jim's first friend on Facebook :) 

I was a contributor to EDICT and Jim eventually folded my COMPDIC (Japanese-English computer dictionary) file into his main EDICT file

http://nihongo.monash.edu/compdic_doc.html

Jim was also one of my heroes when I was studying Japanese (using a Canon Wordtank and a beat up copy of Nelson's dictionary) :)



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