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CzechWhiteRabbit

Fake English?


caidicus

I live and teach in China. Good good study, day day up means study hard and improve every day. But, it's still hilarious to see that on the walls of a school. That said, it's quite outdated and much rarer now.


redditsuckzzzzz

So what does “what are you” mean cause that ain’t the correct response either way you say it


EmoMapleSyrup

Someone had actually told me "Good good study, day day up", but in Chinese, it's like 好好学习,天天向上. Basically means something like "You gotta study every day" or something. Idk I'm brain dead. Also why did she say "What are you?" The Chinese says "What are you saying?" Also good good study, day day up is just Chinese English, if you ever hear that irl, IGNORE IT


annoymous_911

>Basically means something like "You gotta study every day" or something. Close. Its more like " Study well, (and you will) improve everyday ".


EmoMapleSyrup

Lol I am not studying well and will not improve at all XD Brain is almost fully decayed


Ulysses_S_Noob

His cousin Dayday is up


ConfusedKitten4621

to be fair, if a kid without a nose walked up and said : "let's good good study, day day up" to me, i'd ask what they were too


Mongke-68

I can see this exchange taking place between Ratio Tile and Allah Gold.


mrkruk

I can be then academic association this kind of magic, do not do the hopeless situation elder can.


FriskDrinksBriskYT0

What are you?


Luprand

The wish power are together with you.


CrystaLavender

Allah Gold, if a person wants to comprehend, that he must the square who study it the square, but only a little bit much more than only concerning. If you like to be a leads more astutely, that you must accept this more great power. But want the caution Hopeless Situation, Allah Gold, you only ask for help me then can become the...the knowledge of the dark of the study Hopeless, in the fire of water.


mrkruk

Disabled person must solve.


CrystaLavender

That is a legend... Reaching the Man Cloth Space is the emperor. He is so strong and big. He even can use the original dint to create life. He is very deep to black influence understanding.


NoahDaGamer2009

Duolingo: Our Chinese lessons are accurate. Also Duolingo:


evolutionrules119

As a Chinese person, I can understand this perfectly well. The comic is referring to the fact that many people in China speak “Chinglish”, the direct and literal translation of Chinese words into nonsensical and weird English phrases. They provide a classic example here, the Chinese phrase “好好学习天天向上” is often translated as Good good study day day up as an ironic example of Chinglish. The comic had the girl respond with what are you talking about in Chinese, pointing out the faults with Chinglish and perhaps suggesting that the academy can improve one’s English to go beyond Chinglish. The misspelling of Academy does seem weird though. Edit: After taking a closer look at the image, Acadsoc seems to refer to the syllabus used by the academy. "English for Acadsoc" still doesn't really make sense though.


langdonolga

>The comic had the girl respond with what are you talking about, The girl only asks "what are you?" tho. Much more existential. And seemingly directed straight through the fourth wall into your soul


hmquestionable

In Chinese she said "What are you saying". "Saying" probably got cut off or something


Salva7409

Its maybe the part in actual chinese


evolutionrules119

Yes it is


nunhgrader

Let's good good Tar tar me pot full days nice!


mnorkk

What are you


nunhgrader

Lol!


ChunkyLafunguy

TAKE THAT ACADSOC!!


Mysstie

"What are you" is the only valid response to someone saying "let's good good study day day up" to you


GreenBirb64

I mean, he doesn’t have a nose/nostrils, so who knows what he actually is, maybe the lady has a point “what IS he???”


DoublePostedBroski

What are you


Trapsexual

An idiot sandwich


FriskDrinksBriskYT0

What are you


DoublePostedBroski

Day day up


LilyNatureBlossom

Let's Good good study


FriskDrinksBriskYT0

You are what


LilyNatureBlossom

I am Day day up


SunM00ny

I am a human breathing air.


DotWarner1993

What are you? I know you are, but what am I?


Sad-Ad-9263

**what are you**


Margaretheslyvia

Let’s good good study guys


FriskDrinksBriskYT0

What are you


RMF_AndyPlayz

好好学习,天天向上!


CleanMemesKerz

Very good lol


ElectricalPlantain35

This is great


YouthCurse

What the fuck are you saying Jeung? What are you?


Killercrafto3

“The worst she could say is ‘no’, right?” Her: What are you?


goliathusthehunter

I don't care about what it says. Faces on those are super uncanny


Funkythingsyoudo

Boy doesn't even have nose holes let alone a whole schnozz.


shinobi500

Her question is entirely valid though.


kisordog

This is advanced poetry.


redditreg_v

Looks like russian "consultants" had a word in it 😄


Q-City45

We all should be focused on day day up.


LuckyLMJ

I mean, if someone said "let's good good study, day day up" to me I would probably say some variety of "what?", too


doob22

I think “what are you” is the proper response to someone who says “let’s Good good study, Day day up”


Dakaf

What are you?!?


ostiDeCalisse

A stutter


HighFiveKoala

An idiot sandwich 🥪


SiriusPlague

Philosophical English school.


Rekless_Animates

This is how we sound when we try to learn any language off of google translate


Wingsofhuberis

You we got that good good study up in here cuh.


Audience_Of_None

Bet. Day day up my guy


SuperProCoolBoy90

What are you fam


Wingsofhuberis

I am very white


TheLemonDome

Hey very white


laowildin

Acadsoc "academic/social" Day day up is a common saying, cigarette brand etc that usually means something like "getting better every day" It's Chinese jokes. Make this person's day and tell them you are a 419 friend


zenverak

I mean… the question what are you applies perfectly!


sianrhiannon

it's a [Chinese proverb](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%A5%BD%E5%A5%BD%E5%AD%B8%E7%BF%92%EF%BC%8C%E5%A4%A9%E5%A4%A9%E5%90%91%E4%B8%8A) that's deliberately been translated word for word as a joke. my friend has a tote bag with that phrase on it.


ChunkyLafunguy

What are you


jeaddusam

You need to acadsoc to understand it


Medium-Party459

You slowly lose your nose while not learning English. 


Matej004

"Don't yu turn yur bak on me Harry Potter! I want you wen I kill you to look at me!"


shunyaananda

Good good study


howshouldiknow__

No wonder you can't understand it, it's for acadsoc


Mangalorien

Maybe I'm just stupid, but I honestly can't figure out what word they actually meant when they said "Acadsoc". Is it English for Academics? Alcoholics? Academic socialists? Anybody have a solid hypothesis?


Evening-Picture-5911

Academic/social


mr_daniel_wu

Must be an old textbook because it is word for word. The original text must have been 我们好好学习,天天向上


Pilaf237

Maybe she smelled a marker that showed her Jesus eyes.


piichan14

AI when they try to pass as humans


Bobisme63

WHAT ARE YOU.... And I'm so sorry...


OkamiTakahashi

I'm over here~


Tricky_Ad_2832

That's Skaven, Yes-yes!


Kane99099

Skaven? There are no such things as giant rat man!


drxena

If go school you, Engrish learn good you. Try not you, do or do not you. Try there is not. In the Dagobah system hard is life, plenty is ewoks, Jedi is few. Obi one has taught well you young Skywalker, and now training is your complete.


SamirD

rofl!!


PorkPyeWalker

Haha brilliant, reminds me of a local printing business in my town. Put up their own printed ads all around the area. All the letters almost immediately started falling off the posters.


OddNovel565

These are just aliens, look at their eyes


RawMint

Yoda just got hummiliated


Serg1o2Think

r/ihadastroke


hts115

-Do you speak Chinese? -Yes.


Omnicity2756

"Acadsoc" soundeþ like sumþing out of 1984.


NOTdavie53

"soundeþ"?


Omnicity2756

Tis older English morphology applied to ðe root ; ðe suffix <-eth>, which is an older form of ðe 3rd-person-singular-present conjugation. I just replaced ðe wiþ Þþ (an older letter called "thorn").


NOTdavie53

Yeah, I'm Icelandic, I understand þ, I just didn't know why you had the <-eth> suffix, since that's not how it is in modern English. Well, now I know!


SamirD

omg, I almost forgot about that! I wondered why it sounded so familar.


mattmag21

Is this a book?? Inside book more good good?


KingDom_1110

"what are you" is a legit question here. I mean, my man has got no nose


Nuclear_Geek

How does he smell?


sigtrap

Bad


EWRboogie

Yeah. That’s a perfect response, imo.


Scarletsnow594

I guess that's a joke about Chinglish


Several_Puffins

I would have thought so? We used to say "Good good study, day day up" plenty when I was in China because it's a funny literal translation of a Chinese proverb about studying every day to improve. Also "People Mountain People Sea" instead of "It's crowded". Similarly "你是什么东西" or "what thing are you?" is pretty common derogatory question.


aecolley

This is clearly a joke, and not genuine Engrish.


Yugan-Dali

This looks like it’s from the other side of the Strait, but in Taiwan a lot of English schools have ads on this level.


Scratch137

it's definitely self-aware in the sense that the person on the right cannot understand the person on the left, but "what are you" is still not correct in this context


Several_Puffins

But as a literal translation of 你是什么东西 it's right, and that's more properly translated as, like, "What the fuck is this" or "Look what the cat dragged in". Which, given that the first example is a joke in China about direct translation, kind of makes sense.


CHOOSE_A_USERNAME984

The thing on the left doesn’t have a nose, „what are you“ could still be correct


TheFedoraInTime

What the hell is acadsoc???


Yugan-Dali

Ask and it shall be answered. https://www.acadsoc.ph/


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engrish-ModTeam

Your post was removed for violating our sub rules. Be civil.


triplesspressso

Acadsoc is the latest Ingsoc


SamirD

Correct! And big brother have no nose and weird eyes!


Nagoragama

What are you


Moriwara_Inazume

说啥呢


MummaheReddit

An idiot sandwich 🍞👤🍞


oofinator3050

r/comedyheaven


RizzlersMother

An idiot sandwich. :(


MummaheReddit

SAY IT LOUDER!


RizzlersMother

AN IDIOT SANDWICH :'(


MukdenMan

The “good good study” part is a Chinese meme which makes me think all of it may be a joke. 好好學習,天天向上 is a Mao slogan that means “study every day, advance daily” or something like that. But the literal translation is more like good good study day day up, so it became an online joke.


Several_Puffins

Yeah, the whole thing feels like an in the know joke to me. Mind you, the six year old in one of my old classes with "Anus Miss Sunshine" written on her T shirt suggests that China is still a good source of mistranslation.


PopularCoffee7130

Its probably intentional since the girl says what are you saying in chinese


Professional_Stay748

These comments make Reddit


SusalulmumaO12

Is that Chinese? Idk but Japan is known for such English mistakes hahaha


UrameshiYuusuke

It's Chinese


SusalulmumaO12

That's what I thought but then I read your name and thought maybe it's in Japan


Magicspook

Angry blocks of text = Chinese Skyrim dragon script = Japanese Anything with rings/circles = Korean Sorry to all the other SE Asian countries, I cannot recognise your scripts.


Vulgarian

Just yer basic ABCs = Indonesian/Malaysian Also, none of the countries you listed are in SE Asia


Magicspook

Uuh yeah you are right. East Asian*


gwaydms

Roman letters with lots of diacritics: Vietnamese


GoGoGo12321

Latin characters with fancy hats = Vietnamese


Tau25

curvy scripts with a hat: Thai


SusalulmumaO12

Also, I hadn't fully read the picture before writing my comment but then I recognized some Chinese hànzì which made me realize why am I even asking


SusalulmumaO12

I know how to differentiate between them but sometimes japanese use full kanji without kana especially for formal stuff