Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names.

NorthWestWind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  美國 can be very 美, politics aside

  Time Square and the surrounding area is cool, although it make me anxious as fuck since I’m an introvert and because 嗰時咁細個喺外國，英語當時亦唔係幾好, so I kinda have to stay very close to 父母 to feel safe, but its just amazing how so many people can fit in such a tiny island (Manhattan, that is)

  唐人街 in 曼克頓 is a reminder that I’m not alone is this place, last I checked, there are 5 Million of us here, it’s always a good reality check when faced with the constant news of political problems and the government constantly threatening to deport people.

  My mom always said “唔洗怕，係趕唔會淨係趕你一個人” (You won’t be the only one to be deported, we’d all be together) lmao

  I remember 啱啱來到美國嗰時 we’d use the subway a lot, but when we cross from Booklyn, where we lived, to Manhattan, the subway goes above ground to cross the water separating the two 區 on a bridge. That was the coolest scenes, just crossing the bridge, looking outside of the window of the subway. This place is so big.

  I remember in 廣州, 住喺嗰啲樓，the apartment unit was 好窄好邋遢

  嗰時喺布碌崙租嘅個間單位 (its a townhouse in suburban area, not a apartment building)，雖然亦係覺得好窄，但係覺得好似比較新，現代，like… it’s just 睇落去好好多，睇落去順眼 know what I mean?

  There are just so many cool places like there’s 好多公園 and 好多樹 where 廣州到冇咁多 greenery，空氣冇咁好

  It really is a beautiful country, but then you have these politicians trying to ruin it… and also um… 你知啦… foreign policy… 👀

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  • Corngood@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I really like the way you wrote this comment with the languages intermingled, with a touch of translation and the rest left to context.

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    • NorthWestWind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s just an average Hongkonger message lol

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