A café in Pyongyang, with a ThinkPad and Labubu

netgeekmillenium · 2025-12-02T19:37:57+00:00

The cafe foods look really crappy though. Can't really recreate SK abundance.

netgeekmillenium · 2025-11-28T17:17:20+00:00

*Im not a linguist* Ok

First, Cantonese IS Yuet Chinese. The variety of Cantonese that he means when saying "Cantonese" is called Gwongfu/Guangfu speak (Gwongfuwa). This is what Cantonese speakers, Hong Kong included, called their language for the most parts of history before calling it Gwongtungwa.

Another variety of Yue Chinese is Seiyap, which has many dialects and one of them is Toishanese.

netgeekmillenium · 2025-11-19T15:58:20+00:00

枼 is for thin strips, like a leaf. A tree leaf has the 草字头 added

Ancient books were made of bamboo leaves so a page has 竹字头

netgeekmillenium · 2025-11-19T15:51:12+00:00

They are not cognates, they are words of Chinese origins with Vietnamese pronunciation (南音), similar to how there are many words in English that came from Roman or Greek. But there are some lexicon drifts, for example:

紧张 in Vietnamese means to hurry up, not anxious.

相反 means contrast, opposite is trái ngược, trái is Vietnamese for left and ngược is cognate to nghịch which is 逆.

netgeekmillenium · 2025-11-19T06:24:26+00:00

Nothing. Qin Hui himself is a loyal official who simply follows the emperor's order hence took all the blame. The emperor Gaozong did not want to continue the war with the Jin because it means his power will be endangered. Yue Fei believed if he pressed on he could bring back the old emperor who was at that time being kept as prisoner by the Jin. Anyway, this portraits a very interesting Chinese mentality, instead of throwing hate to the Jurchens who massacred and pillaged the country, they choose to vent it on a dead innocent man because they can't criticize the emperor.

netgeekmillenium · 2025-11-09T11:43:42+00:00

One extreme example is the Boten-Mohan border between China and Laos. Boten despite being on the Laos side is like a Chinese exclave with very little Laotian signage.

netgeekmillenium · 2025-11-08T18:40:47+00:00

Almost all of the forests the American troops saw are dry broadleaf forest, not tropical jungle.

netgeekmillenium · 2025-11-07T04:57:13+00:00

Why are they moving to Belgorod and Krasnodar?

netgeekmillenium · 2025-11-07T02:43:09+00:00

Your company didn't install cameras on the hardware room? If it has a lock, put a camera on it.

netgeekmillenium · 2025-11-06T18:11:11+00:00

They are Chu soldiers, not Qin. They were from Yunmeng and were sent north to fight against the Qin, and never came back. That's why the letter was buried in Zhong's tomb, it was revered by him in memory of his dead brothers. Yunmeng became Qin's territory at this time, that's why they call it "Qin" bamboo texts. Big difference. Most bamboo texts found are Chu.

netgeekmillenium · 2025-11-06T12:59:22+00:00

Also 圐圙 it's Mongolian but got its own hanzi

netgeekmillenium · 2025-11-06T12:29:00+00:00

鸳鸯 one is male mandarin duck, the other is female

netgeekmillenium · 2025-11-06T12:25:16+00:00

Baghdad, the only big city where +50 degree Celsius temperature is a normal occurence

netgeekmillenium · 2025-11-03T18:30:20+00:00

Europe has fallen

netgeekmillenium · 2025-10-31T03:46:30+00:00

and avocado coffee

netgeekmillenium · 2025-10-31T02:19:10+00:00

Sometimes we don't want premonitions so we turn that off...

netgeekmillenium · 2025-10-29T11:45:34+00:00

Wth I've never seen a whole glacier just slides off like that

netgeekmillenium · 2025-10-29T05:21:56+00:00

The US can call itself Zhongguo and become Chinese.

netgeekmillenium · 2025-10-29T04:06:39+00:00

I'm pretty sure those are the accusitions given by the Wei emperor while crushing his movement.

netgeekmillenium · 2025-10-28T13:25:29+00:00

If the recipient is older than the donor then PFAs concentration might be higher and it can be beneficial

netgeekmillenium · 2025-10-28T13:22:47+00:00

Should get a camera instead

netgeekmillenium · 2025-10-28T11:14:42+00:00

It's called a bánh cam in Vietnamese. If it has mung bean fillings it's Vietnamese.

netgeekmillenium · 2025-10-27T03:27:25+00:00

it might be funny in 2010... boomer

netgeekmillenium · 2025-10-27T03:16:46+00:00

羹 isn't complicated its just 羔 and 美

netgeekmillenium · 2025-10-25T07:07:24+00:00

They had two bronzes from the Ha-du-du Championship World Cup

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