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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Tonight on translations that are almost as unhelpful as the idiom itself, “mark a boat to find a sword”:

There once was a guy on a boat
Who found out that swords do not float.
He pulled out his dagger
With native Chu swagger
And said “I’ll just make me a note.”

#translation #poetry #poem #classicalchinese

An excerpt of Classical Chinese about the guy who marked which boat he lost his sword from as if that’d help find the sword
An excerpt of Classical Chinese about the guy who marked which boat he lost his sword from as if that’d help find the sword
An excerpt of Classical Chinese about the guy who marked which boat he lost his sword from as if that’d help find the sword
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