2014年11月30日星期日

Another Short History of Linguistics (90)

Some terms in recent fictions are even harder to translate into English. People think it maybe an impossible mission. I tried to translate them here.

九阴白骨爪,  in this term九 means nine, it is the largest number of one digit, so it could also means ‘most’  阴 means sinister, 白骨means white bone, 爪 means claw. Put them together the term means ‘the most sinister white bone claw’ it is a sort of Chinese Gong Fu, normally used by bad women.
 Pic from: http://mediainfo.tvscn.com:8088/media/ViewMedia-Normal-264647-jpg.jpg

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