Do Chinese people know how to write in their own language?

[KickAssFlash]

In consideration of our decaying society and the fact the Chinese may become the next superpower, in my spare time I've been trying to decipher what the hell Chinese symbols mean. I have a friend who is from China, and I recently noticed his status update was: 個測試連笞案都宗寫錯, 學咩人教英文吖.

Being that I have no idea what anything means because I have 0 time to devote to it, I immediately put it into google translator and it spit out: "Have a test case with bamboo cane were wrong, people learn to teach English acridine baa." He later wrote in response to some sort of Chinese 妤呀, 快D返嚟吖, 等你...which apparently means "Yu ah, fast D back Li acridine, waiting for you." Every time I put something into a Chinese translator, it doesn't make sense. Is it just impossible to translate Chinese with some sort of translator, or do Chinese people just not understand what they are writing themselves?

[Fosters]

In consideration of our decaying society and the fact the Chinese may become the next superpower, in my spare time I've been trying to decipher what the hell Chinese symbols mean. I have a friend who is from China, and I recently noticed his status update was: 個測試連笞案都宗寫錯, 學咩人教英文吖.

Being that I have no idea what anything means because I have 0 time to devote to it, I immediately put it into google translator and it spit out: "Have a test case with bamboo cane were wrong, people learn to teach English acridine baa." He later wrote in response to some sort of Chinese 妤呀, 快D返嚟吖, 等你...which apparently means "Yu ah, fast D back Li acridine, waiting for you." Every time I put something into a Chinese translator, it doesn't make sense. Is it just impossible to translate Chinese with some sort of translator, or do Chinese people just not understand what they are writing themselves?

Grammar between languages is vastly different, to the point that a translator going word by word makes no sense whatsoever. Happens to a certain degree with all languages. Also explains why immigrants get the grammar wrong even if they get the words right... they think in their language and translate it word by word afterwards. And the translator isn't even all that great at translating everything word for word.

[68GTO]

Two Words: Fuzzy Moonunit

[Scorpner]

It's all Chinese to me.

[fuzzy moonunit]

Two Words: Fuzzy Moonunit

曹操就来了(speak of the devil)！This is in traditional characters which leads me to believe the author is from Hong Kong or Taiwan. I speak only the finest and purest Beijing Mandarin and some Shandong dialect. I only know how to swear and ask where the bathroom is in Cantonese. That said, I'll try to explain some of the translation difficulties Google is having.

Several characters are purely phonetic (吖,嚟,咩, anything with a 口 on the left side) and are either regional slang or are used for expression. It's also possible that this is written in 火星话 (martian language, slang for youth-slang) and some characters are used not for their meaning but because they look like the word that is meant to be used. For example, 妤 and 好 look similar so when he typed 妤呀 perhaps he meant 好呀 or 好了 or maybe even 好丫.

If this is a really important issue I'd be willing to cruise some Chinese forums and chatrooms to figure it out, but it's a status update...

Edit: Caveat: Mandarin Chinese is an artificial language created in the mid-20th century based on Beijing Dialect of Chinese to further unify China. The language in China is much less homogenized than English or even French and many people speak more than one dialect.

[octanehuffer]

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[fuzzy moonunit]

Well, I didn't have shit else to do.

個測試連笞案都宗寫錯, 學咩人教英文吖.

"Okay the answers were(are?) all wrong, copying/studying/learning foreigners teaching english!"

妤呀, 快D返嚟吖, 等你

"Okay, hurry up and come back, I'm waiting for you!"

Also, is your friend gay? He talks like a girl.

Edit: When I said "right" I actually meant "wrong." I'm a terrible translator. If I worked at the UN we'd all be screwed.

[TransAmCamm]

In consideration of our decaying society and the fact the Chinese may become the next superpower

yay China! where making $1.25 is above the poverty line.

I hate people like you, Juyst beacuse we encounter problem (yes they do happen in every country from time to time asshole) sudenly we are decaying..

Tell me...When you get a broken arm do you think your dieing to?

and if we are decaying its cause of people with attitudes like yours...no grit just give...

ps: i dont care what Fuzztfgt says....He just wishes his eyes slanted since birth.

[fuzzy moonunit]

yay China! where making $1.25 is above the poverty line.

I hate people like you, Juyst beacuse we encounter problem (yes they do happen in every country from time to time asshole) sudenly we are decaying..

Tell me...When you get a broken arm do you think your dieing to?

and if we are decaying its cause of people with attitudes like yours...no grit just give...

Listen closely, Stallion. You can learn a lot from this guy.

[TransAmCamm]

Listen closely, Stallion. You can learn a lot from this guy.

Only if he wants a life full of fun, popularity, and hot sexy pussy. But if he wants to play D&D and jerk off for the rest of his days he could listen you

[Turbohwagon]

I'm sure fuzzy is hauling in the AZN puss by the truck load, he may even be selling it whole-sale by now.

[TransAmCamm]

I'm sure fuzzy is hauling in the AZN puss by the truck load, he may even be selling it whole-sale by now.

I doubt he is, and even if he was , who cares Asian women are fucking ugly. Only people that like them….are go figure nerdy fucking computer geeks, who goto one too many electronic trade shows.

I would rather my Women not look like pan heads of catfish.

[Fosters]

[Turbohwagon]

[Stormwalker]

Dammit Fosters, you beat me to it.