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[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 12 points 18 hours ago
[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 14 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Unsolicited translation advice

For 'thoughts and prayers' I think a better translation would be 关心与祝祷.

想法 is more like 'how one thinks', one's thoughts about a subject, or manner of thinking (法 being the key word here for 'way of doing sth')

关心 on the other hand conveys what 'thoughts' in the English does, i.e. it means care, keeping 关something close to one's heart 心 (which was the locus of thought in classical Chinese philosophy) other translations I saw are 关怀 for thoughts, where huai is also one's heart/chest/bosom

(I'm not a native speaker so even 关心与祝祷 sounds a bit skewiff to me, I looked at other online translations and they don't translate directly, they translate phrasally e.g.

Our thoughts and prayers are with them in this time of grief. {在这悲伤的时刻|zai zhe beishang de shike} {我们心中想到他们|women xinzhong xiangdao tamen} {并为他们祈祷|bing wei tamen qidao}。

lit. in this grief (possessive modifer) moment our hearts think (prep*, 'to > of') them, also (prep, 'towards, for') them pray

*I'm not sure how to grammatically mark it. It's not a particle, it's like a completional verbal complement, it's used here to show that 'they' have been thought 'of' (想到 think/arrive > think/complete). It's been a while since I studied

It's also as distinct to 想+sbdy/sth which means to 'miss' someone (as in, you're thinking of them because they aren't there), i.e. 我想你 I miss you, 我想家 I'm homesick (I'm thinking of home)

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 15 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

kitty-cri
DuChinese says I know 1900 words made from 953 characters

[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 12 points 15 hours ago

加油! You got this

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