Re: Completely OT: any chinese speakers here?
On Thursday, 2006-07-20 at 12:39:05 +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> Yodel!
> Sorry about the OT, even for curiosa, but there might be somebody here...
> I don't like to wear stuff with writing on it where I am completely clueless
> as to what the writing might mean...
> Anybody?
> <http://fortytwo.ch/~avbidder/CIMG4620.JPG>
> (My guesses are that either a non-chinese-speaker designed this and it
> doesn't make sense at all or that a chinese speaking underpaid woman at the
> sweatshop was asked by the non-chinese designer and showed him the writing
> for bugger off, asshole :-/ I bet the chinese have their own version of
> the engrish.com web site.)
A Chinese friend of mine says (German original first, my English
translation after that):
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also das Bild muss 90 Grad drehen (Uhrzeigesinn), dann stehen die 2 Zeichen richtig untereinander. Das erste ist "Drache", das zweite "Schwert". "Drachenschwert", oder mit ein bisschen Context:
1) ein Schwert der oder deren Besitzer besondere Status/Qualität hat ?
2) ein Buchtitle ? (dann wird es in Story erklärt)
Es gibt noch 3 Stempel im Hintergrund. Da kann ich die Zeichen aber nicht erkennen, die sind in alter Schriftstyle geschrieben.
Außderdem wenn es um Kleidung oder Mode geht, ist es möglich, dass
man irgendwelche Stempel einfach in die Muster eingearbeitet hat, weil es
schön aussieht. Denn normalerweise reicht eine aus, wie Unterschrift :-)
Oder ist es doch ein Buchcover mit allen Protagonisten ...
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Well you have to turn the image 90 degrees (clockwise), then the two
glyphs are correctly above one another. The first is "dragon", the
second "sword". "Dragonsword" or with a little context:
1) A sword whose owner has special status/quality?
2) A book title? (Then is is explained in the story)
There are three stamps in the background. I can't recognize the glyphs,
they are written in old writing style.
Except if this is related to clothing or fashion, it is possible that
the stamps have just been worked into then designs because it looks
pretty. Because normally one is enough like a signature :-)
Or it *is* a bookcover with all the protagonists.
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HTH,
Lupe Christoph
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