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Chinese Subvert Censorship With a Popular Pun
Anonymusing writes "In spoken Chinese, 'grass-mud horse' sounds virtually identical to an obscenity (hint: it begins with "mother-") — and as a cartoon character, it has become an amazing phenomenon. Meant as a subversive attack on censors, the alpaca-like mythical creature has led to a cuddly stuffed animal — selling over 180,000 in a few weeks — and a wildly popular YouTube video with children's voices singing words that are either completely benign or incredibly offensive, depending on how you listen." Update: 03/13 09:29 GMT by T : Since this story was set up, the originally linked video seems to have been pulled. Searching YouTube reveals that there are some alternatives available, at least for now.
Watch the cnut moderators censor this fscking post for all the shirty language it contains!
Hey, mods: kiss my RSS!
I ended up doing this to phonetically construct sentences to pass a filter at someone's job, as you cannot write about less by Anns without it triggering it. And if you have friends who are less by ann, that might be a problem if you decide to write about it.
I hope this doesn't inspire spammers though; Just imagine an inbox with Jew cheese hot who men taking a hot low duh! Now with 5 extra inches of pie Nile mask joule in men lay Ness. With slew tea nurses.
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
mother-in-law?
Yes its like that in Cantonese as well. I gave up trying to learn my wife's language when I found out that the words for Aunt and Vagina sound exactly the same to me.
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Fayle.
That is Sofa King Awesome!
To allow the mouth to be able to rejoice !
Squirrel!
I'm struck by the fact that one of the first words you learned in Cantonese (up there with how to address family members) was "vagina." How, exactly, did your wife's language lessons go? ;-)
School Forked by Mike Row Soft, I'd love to hear Billy Connelly say that.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Shut your mouth, timothy is one bad grass mud horse.
Wow, the "cuddly stuffed animal version" is very appealing. Does anyone know where I can get one of these? I feel that I must have one for my desk.
The follies of English orthography
achieve heights of linguistic pornography
when the fish that you fry
you spell g-h-o-t-i
for pleasure instead of cryptography...
They even copy Briney Spears.
Is she Britney's pirate cousin?
You can advertise in this sig from as little as £99.99 a month!
And the beep sound is exactly the same pronunciation of vagina in Chinese.
There is a spark in every single flame bait point.
Ich bin ein berliner, you insensitive clod!
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
Yeah, but unfortunately her best album "Arr!... I Did It Again" never made it to the top twenty. Her second album: "...Lubber One More Time" was even less successful. Sad but true.
Yes its like that in Cantonese as well. I gave up trying to learn my wife's language when I found out that the words for Aunt and Vagina sound exactly the same to me.
Oh. So that's why the Cantonese woman was wanting me to pay $100 to meet her aunt...
Sie = you, respectful sie = she
"Do you have a jelly donut", not "does she have a jelly donut"
You're perfectly correct about the correction, but wouldn't that last sentence be Hat sie ein Berliner?
That's right, ladies and gentlemen! We've now moved on to being grammar nazis of german!
You can't spell slaughter without laughter!
'hungry' and 'horny' are identical except for length of gesture, speed, and repetition.
That phenomenon is not exclusive to ASL. (Depending on what you're into, of course.)