Chinese Number Websites: The Secret Meaning of URLs (2014)

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 4:51 PM UTC

RandomBacon wrote: post #35

tlrobinson wrote: post #31

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I get that the author wanted to express frustration and be clever, and he had limited examples of “number-based slang” to do so with, but I agree with the parent comment that calling Americans “idiots” and telling them to “go die” seems excessively hostile. Though I also can’t imagine “go die” has the same force in Chinese that it would have in English if it’s a common slang.

That's my thought too. Apparently HN does not agree which I think is sad. It's interesting information in the article, but being hostile just because the Internet was pioneered in the U.S. and thus a lot of U.S. customs are baked in seems excesive. I like anime, but I'm not hostile to the Japanese because the shows I like are spoken in Japanese with only English subtitles.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 4:54 PM UTC

RandomBacon wrote: post #35

tlrobinson wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get that the author wanted to express frustration and be clever, and he had limited examples of “number-based slang” to do so with, but I agree with the parent comment that calling Americans “idiots” and telling them to “go die” seems excessively hostile. Though I also can’t imagine “go die” has the same force in Chinese that it would have in English if it’s a common slang.

That's my thought too. Apparently HN does not agree which I think is sad. It's interesting information in the article, but being hostile just because the Internet was pioneered in the U.S. and thus a lot of U.S. customs are baked in seems excesive. I like anime, but I'm not hostile to the Japanese because the shows I like are spoken in Japanese with only English subtitles.

Post by y4mi » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 5:26 PM UTC

kev6168 wrote: post #34

eiliant wrote: post #27

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bing is ok, it’s no google though but much better than say baidu

yeah, my default search engine is bing. But sometimes you have the feeling it probably has less stuff in its database than what baidu has crawled and collected. Out of habit I rarely use 360 or sogou so I don't know how they fair compared to baidu or bing.

Post by mikeash » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 5:36 PM UTC

RandomBacon wrote: post #45

mikeash wrote: post #41

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Anime isn’t deeply embedded in society the way the internet is now. Imagine if you had to learn some Japanese just to access your bank account or buy plane tickets.

I have (Japanese, Spanish, and Korean). I didn't hate the host cultures because of it.

Post by hbosch » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 5:59 PM UTC

dangrover wrote: post #49

twiss wrote: post #3

> The phone companies China Telecom and China Unicom simply reappropriated their well-known customer service numbers as domain names, 10086.cn and 10010.cn, respectively. https://9292.nl is an example of this outside China, taking its name from 0900-9292 (a phone number you can call to get public transport travel directions, now largely replaced by the website/app).

They forgot the most notorious, 12306.cn. Basically Healthcare.gov for train tickets.