施(shī)氏(shì)食(shí)狮(shī)史(shǐ)——The Story of the Stone Grotto Poet Eating Lions

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by liyanjifeng117, Feb 3, 2018.

  1. liyanjifeng117

    liyanjifeng117 Active Member

    Joined:
    Jan 12, 2018
    Messages:
    79
    Likes Received:
    155
    Reading List:
    Link
    施氏食狮史
    石室诗士施氏,嗜狮,誓食十狮。施氏时时适市视狮。十时,适十狮市。是时,适施氏适是市。施氏视十狮,恃矢势,使是十狮逝世。氏拾是十狮尸,适石室。石室湿,施氏使侍拭石室。石室拭,施氏始试食十狮尸食。时,始识十狮实十石狮尸。试释是事。
    shīshìshíshīshǐ
    shíshìshīshìshīshì,shìshī,shìshíshíshī。shìshíshíshìshìshìshī。shíshí,shìshīshīshìshì。shìshí,shìshīshìshì。shìshìshíshī,shìshǐshì。shǐshìshíshīshìshì。shìshíshìshíshīshī,shìshíshì。shíshìshī,shìshǐshìshìshíshì。shíshìshì,shìshǐshìshíshíshīshī。shíshí,shǐshìshìshíshīshī,shíshíshíshīshī。shìshìshì。
    The Story of the Stone Grotto Poet Eating Lions
    Stone Grotto post Shih by name was fond of lions and swore he would eat ten lions. The man from time to time went to the market to look at lions. When, at ten o’clock, he went to the market, it happened that ten lions went to the market. At this time the man looked at the ten lions and, relying on the moment of ten stone arrows, caused the ten lions to depart from this world. The man picked these ten lions’ bodies and went to the stone grotto. The stone grotto was wet and he made the servant try to wipe the stone grotto. The stone grotto having been wiped, the man began to try to eat the ten lions’ bodies. When he ate them, he began to realize that those ten lions’ bodies were really ten stone lions’ bodies. Now he began to understand that that was the fact of the case. Try and explain this matter.
     
  2. liyanjifeng117

    liyanjifeng117 Active Member

    Joined:
    Jan 12, 2018
    Messages:
    79
    Likes Received:
    155
    Reading List:
    Link
    Well,this article is a proof of the infeasibility of the Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet.
    In the long course of development,,Chinese has abandoned a lot of syllables,resulting in the emergence of a large number of homophones.:blob_zipper_mouth:
     
    Deleted member 41274 and Haxagen like this.
  3. ayyshadow

    ayyshadow Eternal Lurker || Lover of Anything Fluffy

    Joined:
    Dec 10, 2017
    Messages:
    395
    Likes Received:
    2,004
    Reading List:
    Link
    Instant headache.
     
  4. Ddraig

    Ddraig Frostfire Dragon|Retired lurker|FFF|Loved by RNG

    Joined:
    Apr 6, 2016
    Messages:
    7,855
    Likes Received:
    22,461
    Reading List:
    Link
    Just beautiful
     
    Disgusting and Madder like this.
  5. Cite

    Cite 『Procrastinator』

    Joined:
    May 30, 2017
    Messages:
    846
    Likes Received:
    975
    Reading List:
    Link
    Thank goodness that I have some mastery in the Dao of MTL...
     
  6. Reright

    Reright Someone who tried to keep it simple but failed

    Joined:
    Oct 20, 2015
    Messages:
    1,004
    Likes Received:
    706
    Reading List:
    Link
    It's seems you know what is happening explain please :)
     
  7. Madder

    Madder Just a twat

    Joined:
    Dec 22, 2017
    Messages:
    201
    Likes Received:
    291
    Reading List:
    Link
    The beauty of it is lost in English though.
     
    Deleted member 41274 likes this.
  8. PenguinXeus

    PenguinXeus Just A Penguin, Kigurumi Wakuseijin

    Joined:
    Feb 12, 2016
    Messages:
    890
    Likes Received:
    982
    Reading List:
    Link
    on the contrary this is just beautiful chinese word play
     
    Disgusting, Zeraphin, asriu and 5 others like this.
  9. wonderer

    wonderer Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Apr 5, 2017
    Messages:
    1,356
    Likes Received:
    1,051
    Reading List:
    Link
    isn't there a thing where people try making story and sentences from characters that sound the same?
    only know this since the MC of I really am a super star does it
     
  10. Ddraig

    Ddraig Frostfire Dragon|Retired lurker|FFF|Loved by RNG

    Joined:
    Apr 6, 2016
    Messages:
    7,855
    Likes Received:
    22,461
    Reading List:
    Link
    Google translate this and put it to read aloud in chinese mode. It's just awesome
     
    Mahapatih and Nyanko like this.
  11. Nyanko

    Nyanko Psychotic Cat Princess

    Joined:
    Oct 23, 2015
    Messages:
    2,138
    Likes Received:
    4,353
    Reading List:
    Link
    reason 23114 why Chinese is the hardest language to learn
     
  12. Dsatan

    Dsatan Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 22, 2017
    Messages:
    136
    Likes Received:
    58
    Reading List:
    Link
    If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
     
  13. liyanjifeng117

    liyanjifeng117 Active Member

    Joined:
    Jan 12, 2018
    Messages:
    79
    Likes Received:
    155
    Reading List:
    Link
    We still have...
    There used to be some literati try to turn Chinese characters into phonetic alphabets,and many people support their actions,some people began to try to write books in phonetic alphabets……
    Thank heaven,It doesn't work.
    A great scholar's work of the game:blobhero:
     
    Last edited: Feb 3, 2018
    Reright likes this.
  14. Russian anarchist-romantic

    Russian anarchist-romantic Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 4, 2018
    Messages:
    63
    Likes Received:
    614
    Reading List:
    Link
    By hearing and phonetic writing it is absolutely unclear, its meaning is revealed only in the hieroglyphic record. However, it will only sound on Putonghua — standard Chinese. Dialect reading will be different.
    sorry for bad english.
     
  15. LIGHTDX

    LIGHTDX Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Apr 5, 2016
    Messages:
    194
    Likes Received:
    106
    Reading List:
    Link
    For what i know there may some beauty in the letters that people that understand deeply chinese can see. Unfortunaly i can't see that beauty and if i only heard the audio of that in chinese it sounds like some tongue twister of "shi" variants of pronuntiation.
     
  16. Reright

    Reright Someone who tried to keep it simple but failed

    Joined:
    Oct 20, 2015
    Messages:
    1,004
    Likes Received:
    706
    Reading List:
    Link
    It's okay,Thank you for doing your best to explain and keep trying to get better at English I wish you luck :blobparty:
     
  17. Reright

    Reright Someone who tried to keep it simple but failed

    Joined:
    Oct 20, 2015
    Messages:
    1,004
    Likes Received:
    706
    Reading List:
    Link
    So let me try to wrap my head around this that story is someone trying to turn Chinese symbols into something like modern English letters of an alphabet ..or have I misunderstood?
     
  18. Rivenn

    Rivenn 【I eat fruit】【commonhouseman】【RV_n/Rivelle】

    Joined:
    Nov 26, 2015
    Messages:
    752
    Likes Received:
    686
    Reading List:
    Link
    <doesn't understand but it's beautiful anyway~
     
  19. Vedastra

    Vedastra [I.....See....You.....!!!]

    Joined:
    Sep 10, 2016
    Messages:
    322
    Likes Received:
    355
    Reading List:
    Link
    The shitest story I ever heard
     
    Zackarov and Ddraig like this.
  20. Lurker of the dark

    Lurker of the dark [Just a bored lurker]

    Joined:
    Jan 8, 2017
    Messages:
    286
    Likes Received:
    128
    Reading List:
    Link
    -Learns chinese for 7 years,still has a headache...