The post has prompted many users to inquire about Chinese social media platforms.
BEIJING - Crude, succinct and very much to the point, Chinglish — a mishmash of Chinese and English long ridiculed for generating confounding and awkward translations — has recently created a buzz on social media for its unique consoling touch.
One commenter attempted to persuade the blogger to move on and focus on the silver lining of potentially connecting with a better man in the future, saying, “The old doesn’t go, the new doesn’t come.” These verbatim translations — ignorant of grammar rules and different cultural connotations — have even spread to social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
The metaphor of the swan and the frog has also gone viral on X, with a variety of memes juxtaposing celebrities or cartoon characters deemed unsuited for each other and designating them as either swans or frogs. “After seeing the posts of ‘u swan, he frog’, I was confused because I didn’t originally know the Chinese equivalent … so I had to ask some of my Chinese friends about it,” he said.
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