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Everyone on RedNote says to use AI for translation and specifically begs westerners not to use Google Translate
I’ve heard deepl is pretty good though
Deepl is legitimately scary how good it is. Truly one of the only good uses of AI
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you ever had a conversation with someone who doesn’t speak english and is using google translate?
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I’ve had mixed results with both, but when someone’s location is in China, it can be hard to know which people are using translators vs which ones are just speaking English. A lot of language learners naturally jumped at the chance to make American friends and practice their English. Same goes in the other direction.
which AI tool?
Not about Chinese, but DeepL does an amazing job at translating to/from the languages I speak, even idioms and other weird nuances.
Seconding DeepL. AI is actually good at natural language translations
Deepseek should be good
The advice I’ve seen says ChatGPT but I assume other modern models are comparable
White Monster Energy Drinks
Energy drinks for the white monsters? Is that the Maoist Standard term?
In any case, 魔爪能量饮料.
Maoist standard Chinese
Zero Ultra nocal Monster Energy flavor. Don’t ask me or my desk how we know.
White was lowcal and blue nocal last I checked but I’m clean now
you’re right its 10cal. No wonder I’ve been blowing up
I am curious whether 怪兽能量饮料 is at all acceptable since it is used in a link in Chinese Wikipedia which apparently translates the company name as 怪物饮料: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/怪獸能量飲料
I would guess the Maoist “standard” term would be *鬼佬能量饮料, but the actual forms are 鬼佬汽水 (attested on Douyin, Chinese Tiktok) = gweilo soft drink and 鬼爪饮料 (attested on Zhihu, kind of like Chinese Reddit) = devil/ghost (shortened from gweilo?) 爪 (looks like Monster logo) soft drink.
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At least use Baidu Translate or DeepSeek instead smh
Amerikkkans will never learn anything that involves
transTextIt’s not like
is going to use the phrase “American century of humiliation” either
I think about this meme everyday.
你好，我正在逃离美国世纪的屈辱。你能告诉我哪里可以买到白怪物能量饮料吗？
show pinyin pls
美国狗 只需学习普通话
Nǐ hǎo, wǒ zhèngzài táolí měiguó shìjì de qūrǔ. Nǐ néng gàosù wǒ nǎlǐ kěyǐ mǎi dào bái guàiwù néngliàng yǐnliào ma?
谢谢 (xiè xie)
How’s the romanization of mandarin, better or worse than the romanization of japanese
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Some characters have multiple pronunciations (and thus pinyin spellings) depending on the meaning, too, but that’s neither here nor there
I don’t know anything about Japanese, but hanyu pinyin is CPC-approved! In fact, they teach children to read it early on in China. It doesn’t take that long to learn how to read it.
Now, stinky awful wade-giles and other romanization is a whole other story
wade-giles
[spits] [unintelligible cursing]
I ended up finding it a bit wonkier when learning it for the first time (e.g. ‘shui’ rhymes with ‘wei’, ‘jiu’ rhymes with ‘you’), but it’s just as consistent once you accept the orthographic idiosyncrasy. Edit: with respect to pinyin, only took a brief look at Wade-Giles and it feels a lot less sensible in comparison.
There are many better beverages in China than white monster, like getting a bottle of 二锅头 for breakfast
I don’t speak or read Chinese, but DeepSeek says:
您好！您提供的句子“Hello, I am fleeing the century of American humiliation. Can you show me where to buy White Monster energy drinks?” 可以翻译为：
“你好，我正在逃离‘美国耻辱的世纪’。你能告诉我在哪里可以买到白色怪物能量饮料吗？”
说明：
- “fleeing the century of American humiliation”：这里译为“逃离‘美国耻辱的世纪’”。其中，“century of humiliation”是一个特定术语，在中文语境中常指中国近代的“百年国耻”。但根据您的描述，这里指的是美国的历史，因此加上引号并明确为“美国耻辱的世纪”以区分。
- “White Monster energy drinks”：译为“白色怪物能量饮料”。根据搜索结果，“White Monster”是“Monster Energy Zero Ultra”的俗称，因其白色包装而得名。中文用户也常直接称其为“白魔”或“白色怪物”。
购买信息：
根据搜索结果，White Monster（即 Monster Energy Zero Ultra）是一种零糖、零卡路里的能量饮料，含有150毫克咖啡因，口味被描述为混合了西柚、柠檬和淡淡的水果味。您可以在以下地方购买：
· 大型超市：如沃尔玛、家乐福等。 · 便利店：如7-Eleven、全家等。 · 在线平台：如淘宝、京东、亚马逊等，搜索“Monster Zero Ultra”或“白色怪物能量饮料”。 · 进口食品店：许多专门销售进口商品的店铺也有售。
如果您需要更具体的购买地点或品牌详情，请提供您所在的城市或国家，我可以进一步帮助您查找！
