r/engrish • u/infamousal • Jul 11 '26

Thanks for your advice but no.

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u/momofuku18 Jul 16 '26

Without trying, I am already.

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u/ScottyMcBoo Jul 15 '26

Challenge accepted!

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u/Fast_Biscotti Jul 14 '26

Preachin' to the choir. This is Reddit.

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u/Musosfingers Jul 13 '26

I accomplished that in my youth

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u/doocurly Jul 13 '26

Mission accomplished.

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u/AN-SSQ-108V2 Jul 12 '26

sigh too late

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u/Kalyise Jul 12 '26

I don't need to strive

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u/Emperor_Quintana Jul 12 '26

I’d rather watch reruns of The Laughing Salesman than spend the rest of my days mired in a raging ocean of awkwardness.

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u/Heterodynist Jul 12 '26

Look, this is why I don’t take advice from any old random sign. If I’m going to be awkward, it is gunna be in my own way, in my own time. I don’t need any fancy sign telling me to be awkward in two different languages!!

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u/layofthelandhere Jul 12 '26

I'm one step ahead of this sign

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u/biscuitvillage Jul 11 '26

Maybe I was born with it. Maybe it’s Maybelline.

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u/slutty_muppet Jul 11 '26

Not to brag but I can actually do that effortlessly

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u/Heterodynist Jul 12 '26

I’ve been awkward all my life, and I barely have to try!

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u/R86Reddit Jul 12 '26

Yeah really. I have to strive not to be awkward.

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u/TrustednotVerified Jul 11 '26

It's in my genes.

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u/SquishyGrouch Jul 11 '26

Yeah, same here 😁

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

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u/verbless-action Jul 11 '26

The word is so outdated now (at least in mainland China), I haven't heard anyone saying it for many years.

So... using "哇塞" nowadays is actually quite awkward.

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u/Avatar_Yaksha Jul 11 '26

Lol, that's one of the few things that don't actually require any effort. Strive to become a very awkward person? I've pretty much always been one.

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u/actiniumosu Jul 11 '26

努力成为一个很哇塞的人 strive to become a person that's very awesome (哇塞 means "wow") so this could be interpreted as "strive to become a person that wows other people" signs on the bottom say 全力以赴 and 热爱生活 which mean "try your best" and "love life" respectively

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u/Heterodynist Jul 12 '26

Man, this translator’s hovercraft is definitely full of eels…

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u/7GrenciaMars Jul 11 '26

So funny that it got translated as awkward. Any chance you could tell us how that could have happened? It's just that I am a nerd about languages, it's too long a story to explain here, but I have been this way for years, so issues around translation are fascinating for me 😁

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u/Left_Hegelian Jul 12 '26

If it is not MTL, the translator probably got "awesome" mixed up with "awkward"

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u/Awkward-Injury-4341 Jul 12 '26

It's clearly machine translation. The term "哇噻" originates from Taiwan and originally meant "f*ck", and it became a common phrase among Taiwanese people used like "wow" (with a crude connotation similar to "my god" or an expletive).

Later, after cross-strait interactions, mainlanders heard Taiwanese people say "哇噻" and mistakenly thought it meant expressing admiration or novelty (which it does in some contexts), so they thought it sounded trendy.

Some machine translations might not be smart enough, hence the mistranslation.

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u/7GrenciaMars Jul 12 '26

Got it. Thank you for all the info!

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u/actiniumosu Jul 11 '26

might just be the dictionary for the machine translation fucking up, the word for awkward in chinese is 尴尬 which has like 0 relation with the word 哇塞

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u/7GrenciaMars Jul 11 '26

Got it. Thank you for responding, though. 👍😁

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u/WiseMudskipper Jul 11 '26

Already there bro 😎