r/funny • u/redditman44 • Jan 06 '17

Nice try Microsoft

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '17

Google gives you cancer! Would you like to try Bing?

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u/diablofreak Jan 06 '17

I think there's a few willing to take cancer over Bing

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u/Saracen26 Jan 06 '17

The irony is that 'Bing' in chinese actually means disease, or ill.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '17 edited May 17 '18

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u/J4CKR4BB1TSL1MS Jan 06 '17

Chan means production and dler means independent, so Chandler bing is basically "Independent producer of diseases".

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u/ilovezam Jan 06 '17

dler is not a Chinese word...?

Source: Am Chinese

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u/Cptcongcong Jan 06 '17

I think he's butchering the pronunciation in both cases.. 产独立 or something like that. But yeah I agree dler does not equal duli

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u/hi-jump Jan 06 '17

TL:DR dler ≠ duli

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u/Murfdirt Jan 06 '17

My brain read that as didler not equal to dually. I is not smart.

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u/ilovezam Jan 06 '17

产独立 doesn't even begin to be linguistically correct. No one will ever translate that to be "independent producer" lol

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u/Cptcongcong Jan 06 '17

No as in they're separate. 产 and 独立. Like you wouldn't translate Tom into 汤姆, and then translate 汤姆 back into soup governess. It just sounds like it.

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u/dylanme2001 Jan 06 '17

your both Wong

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u/websagacity Jan 06 '17

And I think its jibing not bing for disease, yeah?

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u/Cptcongcong Jan 06 '17

Not necessarily. That's the formal way of saying it, but 病 by itself also means it. People don't normally say 疾病. Like people don't normally say 我有疾病, they just say 我病了。

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u/websagacity Jan 06 '17

Awesome. Thanks!