New Words Added to Chinese Language

1. Britt
   August 27th, 2007 at 2:22 am

   Brokeback = rofl.

2. Lawrence
   August 27th, 2007 at 3:09 am

   The characters you have in red read

   Gu Ge - Which has no meaning, but Google is using it for their name.

   I’ve heard of
   Semi honey couple - ban tang fu qi (半糖夫妻)
   BrokeBack Mountain - duan bei shan 断背山
   and
   House Slave (mortgage slave) - fang nu 房奴
   but not the others.

   Brokeback is a pretty good one as the meaning is clear even if you don’t know the “new” meaning.

   Lawrence / http://www.shanghaiguide.com

3. Sid Morrison
   August 27th, 2007 at 7:27 am

   What are the words & characters for:
   1. Lead-painted toy?
   2. Poisoned pet food?
   3. Antifreeze-flavored toothpaste?
   4. Counterfeit prescription drug?
   5. Copywrite law? (I’m betting no word for this concept)
   6. Forced abortion?
   7. Unwilling organ donor?
   8. Religious freedom?

4. Orjan Smorjan
   August 27th, 2007 at 9:59 am

   “5. Copywrite law? (I’m betting no word for this concept)”
   Haven’t heard of any copywrite laws elsewhere either.
   I think the copywriters are governed by ethics and freedom of speech when they are writing their ads.

   Wouldn’t it therefor be a little overkill to have a symbol for it?

5. Rob
   August 27th, 2007 at 10:31 am

   I would assume there’s no word for “copywrite” considering that it’s not a word in English either.

6. Bruce V. Bracken
   August 27th, 2007 at 11:27 am

   So, they’ve basically discovered slang. Government-approved slang

7. Lasse
   August 27th, 2007 at 1:01 pm

   And “Democracy”, “individual freedom” and “not flooding hundreds of villages because of giant dam”.

8. Sid Morrison
   August 27th, 2007 at 1:08 pm

   yuck, yuck, yuck. I meant “copyright” of course
   Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

9. Chris
   August 27th, 2007 at 2:10 pm

   Sid : hear, hear!

   9. Political freedom
   10. Child Labor
   11. Working conditions
   12. …

   Buy PRC! You know exactly what you’re buying!

10. Alex
    August 27th, 2007 at 6:00 pm

    It’s Neatorama’s typsophilia spreading to Sid Morrison.

    In China’s defense, *all* nations go through growing pangs as their societies progress. United States had had witch hunt, slavery, indentured servitude, bigotry, religious intolerance, torture, preemptive war and so forth. (Wait, some of these are still going on! Doh!)

11. Angela
    August 28th, 2007 at 12:54 am

    I know right? Sid Morrison must be at least 50 years old and still telling kids “Finish your food, there are people starving in China!” Time to wake up, those problems exists in all nations.

12. Sid Morrison
    August 28th, 2007 at 8:23 am

    angela - I just turned 41 (need an address to send the gift?) and I tell my kid that there are starving in Africa, not China. Nice Try. Pzzzt!

13. Gina W
    November 19th, 2008 at 4:30 am

    This is really a nice post….Great to read it..

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