help with yet another translation for fanfic...

POSTED BY: LJC
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 04:28
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LJC

Friday, June 20, 2003 6:38 PM

So, according to insultmonger.com:

Tsao ni zuzong shiba dai

translates to "fuck 18 generations of your ancestors."

I'm trying, however, to put this into hanyu pinyin, and I'm hitting a roadblock...

here's what I've got thus far (no clue how it'll work on the board, either--I've got it in HTML if that would help--I'm using a circumflex for the upside down circumflex, by the bye, and don't get me started on trying to reproduce a macron in HTML--near as I can tell, you just *can't*):

Cào nî zû xian shí bâ dai

Can anybody take a look at that and tell me if it makes sense?

yeah, so, I suck at this...

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FFYING2

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 4:28 AM

Sorry this is late, but I just noticed this thread while looking for something else. Here are a couple changes.

Quote:
Originally posted by LJC:
Cào nî zû xian shí bâ dai

Cào nî zû xian shí ba dài
Cao4 ni3 zu3xian1 shi2ba1 dai4

18 (shi2ba1)
http://www.parisbatignolles.com/david/dev/chinese.php3?id=14564

generation (dai4)
http://www.parisbatignolles.com/david/dev/chinese.php3?id=4491

Hope this is still useful to you.
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Edited to add:

The original version from insultmonger.com is a lot more common on Google (1098 vs. 678, 98 vs. 1 for exact character wording in quotes).

Cào nî zû zong shí ba dài
Cao4 ni3 zu3zong1 shi2ba1 dai4

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