FauxPseudo

Clippy ear cat! I have more than a few of those. Some intentional. Some not.

Does a number comparing it to a US thing contribute as much as giving a reference point to the UK thing? Comparing it to something outside of the UK doesn’t make it very relevant to UK people. Especially since most people have zero concept of the US naval budget as we tend to lump all military spending together in the US.

I just looked it up and the entire military budget for the UK is $68 billion. “Brexit cost UK twice annual defense budget” offers a much better scope. It hits in a way that a number too large for people to grasp just can’t do."

I currently have three of these. I will never have all four unless I have been tasked with fixing a problem. That first cat is the victim of animal abuse. That’s not a stage. That’s animal cruelty.

140 in reference to what? What percentage of GDP is that? I don’t like large numbers that don’t have a reference point listed too. It might as well say £1.4e11 because it’s just as descriptive and meaningless without a sense of proportion. A percentage would have been a lot more useful.

Could you create one?

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I also read that as “quiet quitting”. Would you try to translate that from English to Chinese could cause all kinds of linguistic issues.

Is there a Lemmy community for that?

Thank you for the commentary. I figured there was some cultural and lingual baggage that was the difference.

Can a Chinese speaker clarify something? “Let it rot” in other sources is 摆烂 (Bải làn) which translates as “showed away” When I translate “let it rot” I get either 让它腐烂 (simplified) or 讓它腐爛.

What’s the difference? How does showed away become let it rot?

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“You have sunk my battle ship.” – Grim Reaper, 1991