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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 12:53:00 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   FYI, please don't tattoo yourself with Chinese characters you "looked up at a library".

   #Mandarin #Reddit #Chinese

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     C.B.Leslie (cbleslie@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 13:38:27 JST C.B.Leslie

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     @liztai kids and their wacky get rich quick schemes.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 14:13:34 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @kopio @wall0159 now that's a good swearing phase to tattoo on your body

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     kopio (kopio@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 14:13:35 JST kopio

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     @wall0159 @liztai "他妈好吃" can also mean "her mother taste good".

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     Gssy (wall0159@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 14:13:36 JST Gssy

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     @liztai thanks for sharing this -- I'm a beginner, so getting insight into how the language works is great - a quick play with google translate suggests that 他妈好吃 means "bloody delicious" or similar

     From a net search, I see that 他妈 is short for a pretty rude saying (not one I'll be trying to reproduce any time soon!):
     https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/%E9%92%B1%E4%BB%96%E5%A6%88%E6%98%AF%E6%88%91%E7%9A%84.2256368/

     For now, I'll focus on learning how to say 我会坐火车去北京 and similar 🙂

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 14:41:34 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @wall0159 oh dear, I am not sure if Google translate got that right. Usually if I want to say "very delicious" I will say 很好吃。他妈 means "his mother" 😆. Unless you mean mum is delicious...

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     Just another rakyat 🇲🇾 (rakyat@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 14:59:21 JST Just another rakyat 🇲🇾

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     @liztai He’s a family man.

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     Gssy (wall0159@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 17:08:12 JST Gssy

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     @kopio @liztai that's pretty funny! Shows the danger of the vernacular!

     So, 他妈 can add emphasis, and be a borderline curse, but only in some circumstances?

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 17:08:12 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @wall0159 @kopio yes, you usually use it like an exclamation, but I've always found it an odd way to swear lol. I often hear 他的妈 ya! from my part of the world. Though, 他妈的 ("damn it") is probably used more often in China.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 18:43:24 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @rakyat the most wholesome tattoo ever