Lingua franca
Jul. 8th, 2013 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyhttp://youtu.be/VIB7bMBFfaA?t=12m
At the twelve minute mark of this video - the link should take you there directly - you can see an example of English being used to straighten out a little communication difficulty (caused by a cheeky Chinese-speaking band member deliberately feeding a mistranslation to his Korean colleague :).
It's a goofy variety show taking place in, as best I can work out, four languages - Mandarin Chinese, the Changsha topolect (or dialect), Korean, and a small but recurring smattering of English - typical stuff, as is the raising of laughs by playing around with language. You'll see two sets of subtitles - the large, colourful Chinese characters are from the original show, and the English translation at the bottom has been added by a fan, bless them.
(I do believe Mandarin has absorbed the word "romantic" from English, rendering it as làngmàn. That's come a long way from Latin.)
At the twelve minute mark of this video - the link should take you there directly - you can see an example of English being used to straighten out a little communication difficulty (caused by a cheeky Chinese-speaking band member deliberately feeding a mistranslation to his Korean colleague :).
It's a goofy variety show taking place in, as best I can work out, four languages - Mandarin Chinese, the Changsha topolect (or dialect), Korean, and a small but recurring smattering of English - typical stuff, as is the raising of laughs by playing around with language. You'll see two sets of subtitles - the large, colourful Chinese characters are from the original show, and the English translation at the bottom has been added by a fan, bless them.
(I do believe Mandarin has absorbed the word "romantic" from English, rendering it as làngmàn. That's come a long way from Latin.)
