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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead (www.404media.co)
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[–] 20 points 5 months ago* (26 children)

That's kind of but not exactly a mistranslation. The original Chinese is closer to 'do not interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake', but in the american vernacular, you can just say 'don't mess with Texas' and it means the same thing locally. Its one of those very regional sayings.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Any time I think of the art of war, I think of this song:

    https://youtu.be/gGYlocT1kOA

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    I mean... I guess it could mean that now, but that is certainly not what it meant originally or how it was ever used.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    Oh, you speak Chinese?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (9 children)

    Is "don't mess with Texas" Chinese?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (8 children)

    I just said its a translation. Yes. From sun tzu I think. In england they translate it the other way I said here.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Except the actual phrase didn't originate from whatever Chinese saying you're talking about. It was an anti-littering campaign, from Texas, in the 1980s.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    No, its from translating 'the art of war' into an american dialect. EPA just appropriated it.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (5 children)

    You got evidence to back that up? Especially since the EPA had nothing to do with the ad campaign?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Yes, but it would be very personally identifying.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    How is a translation of some ancient public work personally identifying

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (6 children)

    This has nothing to do with any translation of any language, it's a US English expression.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    It is a joke.

    They are intimating that texas makes so many mistakes that "Don't mess with texas" may be a blowhard boast to texans, but to everyone else it means "just let the idiots wreck themselves"

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Still has nothing to do with translating anything from any other language.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    And since they doubled down on it being the actual origin when pressed on it, I don't think they were joking.

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