tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406509183596335885.post1015470041145795749..comments2023-09-22T05:58:17.585-04:00Comments on The Prox: White people can't read/see/understand thisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406509183596335885.post-19011654722202724272009-03-18T17:10:00.000-04:002009-03-18T17:10:00.000-04:00lol i cant believe balsam reported this. tooltoolt...lol i cant believe balsam reported this. tooltooltooltooltoolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406509183596335885.post-61106287452512990992009-03-18T02:22:00.000-04:002009-03-18T02:22:00.000-04:00It doesn't look like proper chinese handwriting th...It doesn't look like proper chinese handwriting though. Is it possible that a white person wrote that as a sort of joke?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406509183596335885.post-43932500179164846072009-03-17T23:05:00.000-04:002009-03-17T23:05:00.000-04:00Yep, it's from a T-shirt featured in an online vid...Yep, it's from a T-shirt featured in an online video. This is a pretty silly thing to get exercised about, but I suppose that has never stopped the sensitivity bureaucrats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406509183596335885.post-59999862612845930732009-03-17T21:22:00.000-04:002009-03-17T21:22:00.000-04:00Thank you Roger, correction made. That was an inco...Thank you Roger, correction made. That was an incorrect assumption made from Raphael's e-mail.Tasnim Shamma '11https://www.blogger.com/profile/02049076785174944396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406509183596335885.post-30860327016848879982009-03-17T20:10:00.000-04:002009-03-17T20:10:00.000-04:00This was definitely written by someone who is just...This was definitely written by someone who is just starting to learn Chinese or was copying from a shirt or website. The characters are inconsistent and awkward. The joke is on them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406509183596335885.post-51554334113844922172009-03-17T20:07:00.000-04:002009-03-17T20:07:00.000-04:00To add to the comment above, the shirt was feature...To add to the comment above, the shirt was featured in a mockumentary of sorts, titled "Yellow Fever".<BR/>(link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5847984513475560733)<BR/><BR/>In this version of the shirt (sold @ http://www.post-jdm.com/) I'm pretty sure that the characters "bai ren kan bu dong" translate into "white people don't understand/can't read"<BR/><BR/>Full disclosure: I am Roger Wang, staff photographer for the Prince.<BR/><BR/>and to note an incorrect fact: Carrie Carpenter is the RCA of the side of 3rd floor Bloomberg that is nearest the computer cluster. Christine Prifti is Raphael's RCA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406509183596335885.post-44211550144472087502009-03-17T19:35:00.000-04:002009-03-17T19:35:00.000-04:00It's actual from a shirt that they used to sell on...It's actual from a shirt that they used to sell online, and most likely the writers of that message were white themselves, so it was probably meant in jest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com