Comment on Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress
graff@lemm.ee 2 months agoNever heard that phrase before. What language might that be if you don’t mind me asking?
Comment on Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress
graff@lemm.ee 2 months agoNever heard that phrase before. What language might that be if you don’t mind me asking?
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, in Russia in early 00s (my childhood) they’d say that about things looking like Chinese toys of cheap plastic. As in “Chinese means cheap, but low-quality and probably a toy”. Such things were indeed mostly produced in China, so. It’s rather that back then you’d sometimes have better things, now everything is like this.
moakley@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In English we used to use the word “Scotch”, like Scottish. We still use it to refer to scotch tape - cheap tape.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Scotch tape is a brand name.
moakley@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And it was named that because it was cheap tape.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And the phonetic transcription of that is how we still call that in Russian.
Well, with “Chinese” in Russian it didn’t stick. I’m somewhat sad, I think certain political conditions also make the Russian language poorer and weaker with time. In 00s I, despite being autistic, could somewhat “feel the wave” of the people around me. Now it just … feels as if someone tracks and tries to slowly kill all the good things, as if just being in control is not enough for those people.
graff@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Ah. Thanks, that’s insightful :)