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ICANN Approves Internationalized Chinese Domain Names

Posted by timothy on from the beats-nationalized-any-day dept.

philalethiac writes "Millions of Chinese language users will soon be able to access the Internet using Chinese script following a decision today by ICANN's Board of Directors to approve a set of Chinese language internationalized domain names."

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  1. ! Ha! by KWTm · · Score: 3, Funny

    ! ("shou3" = number one; "biao1" = to announce/post)

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    404555974007725459910684486621289147856453481154 in hex is "You sank my Battleship?"
    [GPG key in journal]
    1. Re:! Ha! by sydneyfong · · Score: 3, Funny

      Took me a while to decode. Looks like I'm barely primary school level. :) My first language is Cantonese so my Putonghua isn't quite there...

      For those who are interested, this is the real translation:

      Slash-Dot is Otaku's news. But the website's technological aspect stinks and the content is dog fart. I fucked Commander Mexico-Roll's mother's pussy.

      Nice one.

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      Don't quote me on this.
  2. Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ICANN haz internationalized Chinese domain name?

  3. Re:left-to-right-top-to-bottom-you-silly-foreigner by Trepidity · · Score: 4, Funny

    While I don't like to raise too much sturm und drang about it, as a native English speaker I must still take some affront at the chutzpah with which these dirty foreigners waltz into our tongue, thinking they have carte blanche to sully our language.

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    10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10