• xijinpingist [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    2 days ago

    LOL in the 80s they had to change the name to canola. I remember the time I was reading Xinhua news and they were doing a rural agricultural photo spread about the fields of [the real name] and I was like what the FUCK, Xinhua! Back then they didn’t know subtext or synonyms and just translated straight out of the dictionary. The “this is so weird / Chinglish” era is all but over. Between AI and returnees they’ve got it now. Returnees really help a country because they say, “why does it have to be like this? Where I lived it’s not like this at all!This is stupid!” And then they change society for the better.