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Hello am business goose. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ahem. I'm still on my tiptoes, awaiting the meaning of the second character in "business."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ugh.. it's business. Chinese does that sometimes. 業 means line of business, trade or occupation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And I'm still waiting on the second character of penguin. I'm guessing that's Chinese doing its thing again?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The second character, 鵝, means goose. So 企鵝 is literally something like, "standing on tiptoes goose". But no one would look at it that closely, to everyone it's just a penguin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, well that all makes sense then.