• irmoz@reddthat.com
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    1 年前

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

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      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.