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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1365 on: December 06, 2011, 06:28:23 PM »
The Hot Dog Plague (aka the Wiener Death) came on the world scene in late 2016.  By 2017, it killed more people worldwide than AIDS.  As the epidemic intensified,  the Hot Dog Plague ended up killing more than 1/3 of the world population by 2025.

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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1366 on: December 06, 2011, 06:47:04 PM »
Yeah duonazi seems to be donuts.

The concept of a 'hot-dog donut' is not as alarming as getting a potentially fatal disease with your meal...but it's still pretty weird.
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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1367 on: December 06, 2011, 09:12:37 PM »
Hahaha, trying to stifle laughs in my office...
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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1368 on: December 06, 2011, 11:29:15 PM »
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Hot dogs and AIDS and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things

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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1369 on: December 07, 2011, 01:53:44 AM »
Ingredients at the bottom of pic - Contains flour, cream, sugar...AND AIDS!
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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1370 on: December 07, 2011, 08:31:55 AM »
Hot Dogs.  We're more than just beaks and feet!
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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1371 on: December 07, 2011, 04:41:13 PM »
Our new ingredient will give you a hotdog you'll remember for the rest of your life. qqqqqqqqqq
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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1372 on: December 08, 2011, 03:27:12 AM »
Quote from: MK on December 06, 2011, 06:47:04 PM
Yeah duonazi seems to be donuts.

I was able to have fun with this one in class this week. I showed them the picture (disconnected from our website). They all gasped and then laughed. Then I showed them MK's link (above) googling 多拿滋 resulting in images of donuts. The penny dropped for them - Donuts had been transliterated into DuoNaZi by the Chinese language authority. Then I showed them Google Translate of 多拿滋 which GOOGLE renders as "Take AIDS more." 
http://translate.google.com.hk/?hl=en&cp=3&gs_id=3&xhr=t&q=多拿滋&tok=TxXihQyzajz2kLxRj-97Qg&safe=off&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1280&bih=605&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iT

Voila! AIDS!

We all agreed to blame both the Chinese language authority and Google.

1. The Chinese translation authority for their poor choice in transliteration characters: why not just this zi 字 rather than this zi 滋? Unless they were intentionally trying to frighten their own away from "donuts" which have become quite a popular small franchise business here in the last couple of years.

2. Google for really bad literal translation. They need to up their Translation game.

This is reminiscent of the old Jin Shan Zi Bao translation software which used to translate  干 gan (dried) as "F***" resulting in many funny translations in grocery stores of the Dried Fruits and Dried Vegetable sections.
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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1373 on: December 08, 2011, 01:01:06 PM »
3. Chinese approach to 'Western' food generally, e.g. trying to put a hot dog in a donut....honestly it's like something Homer Simpson would dream up...
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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1374 on: December 08, 2011, 01:32:00 PM »
The Chinese approach to Western foods is the same as for Western people. Fine to have around sometimes, but it isn't something you'd take seriously. You stick strictly to native Chinese items for your main course. Western elements, even perfectly serious ones like, say, bread, are OK for a diversion now and then. Just add plenty of sugar to cover up that nasty Western taste. Remind anyone of their workplace? Oh, putting a hot dog in a doughnut is completely ridiculous? It's OK, it's not like we defiled hongshao qiezi. That would be offensive.
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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1375 on: December 08, 2011, 01:34:29 PM »
Quote from: MK on December 08, 2011, 01:01:06 PM
3. Chinese approach to 'Western' food generally, e.g. trying to put a hot dog in a donut....honestly it's like something Homer Simpson would dream up...

I dunno, it's just another form of "pig-in-a-blanket."

cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigs_in_a_blanket
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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1376 on: December 08, 2011, 04:22:13 PM »
Hot dog in a donut, pig in a blanket, or whatever else you call it, just make sure to safely wrap up that wiener before using it. afafafafaf
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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1377 on: December 09, 2011, 02:18:57 AM »
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I dunno, it's just another form of "pig-in-a-blanket."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigs_in_a_blanket

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In the United States, the term "pigs in a blanket" ... refers to hot dogs, Vienna sausages, or breakfast/link sausages wrapped in biscuit dough, pancake, or croissant dough, and baked.

OK, I thought the Scottish diet was unhealthy...

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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1378 on: December 12, 2011, 05:27:15 PM »
Oh, no...

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Re: This week's avatar: alternate headings
« Reply #1379 on: December 12, 2011, 06:34:31 PM »
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