▲ 990 ▼ China’s Youth Are Quitting the Rat Race to ‘Let It Rot’ (www.wsj.com) submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world 232 comments fedilink hide all child comments Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family
[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Would "just throw the whole thing away" (as in throw it into the trash) be a more fitting translation for the sentiment than "let it rot" then? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) Not exactly, 摆烂 is more mischievous noncompliance (like we typically think of a lazy cat), than confrontational sabotage. But "throw it all away" certainly conveys the message well enough. It is quite common to have word in one language that dont have a exact match in another language. Even in European languages, let along between Chinese and English, which are widely different. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago Interesting! Thank you for the insight, I've always loved the topic of direct translation vs contextual translation ever since I dove into it in a Contemporary Japanese Literature course in college permalink fedilink source parent
[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) Not exactly, 摆烂 is more mischievous noncompliance (like we typically think of a lazy cat), than confrontational sabotage. But "throw it all away" certainly conveys the message well enough. It is quite common to have word in one language that dont have a exact match in another language. Even in European languages, let along between Chinese and English, which are widely different. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago Interesting! Thank you for the insight, I've always loved the topic of direct translation vs contextual translation ever since I dove into it in a Contemporary Japanese Literature course in college permalink fedilink source parent
[–] whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago Interesting! Thank you for the insight, I've always loved the topic of direct translation vs contextual translation ever since I dove into it in a Contemporary Japanese Literature course in college permalink fedilink source parent