• YICHM@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    With context, this sentence can be simplified to

    有屎必有尿;有尿不必有屎。

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    2 days ago

    Man… The Chinese language is supposed to encompass phrases within single characters, but this sentence is obviously longer in Chinese than it is in English.

    Are you trying to trick us?

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      1 day ago

      Just invent a story that examplifies this and then create an idiom for the story and you can say it in 4 characters /s

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      2 days ago

      They both have a close amount of syllables. A friend gifted me some extraordinary grass and the multiple counts I have made have failed on their account, but both the English and the mandarin have around 18 syllables [CI: 17-19, p<0.05]