Some definitions with Chinese characteristics

[Cooler]

1.Constitution: a law made by a political party to make the one-party system legal.

2.Servants:The most powful group of men who have always been calling themselves "People's servants" and "the vanguard of the working class".

3.Human rights: Something that western countries use to interfere with China's internal affairs.

4.Demonstration:A public display of group opinion,which has to be approved by the authorities in advance,according to the Law of Demonstrations passed in 1989.

5.patriotism:If you want to be "patriotic",you have to be with the CCP at any time,no matter what it has done or has been doing to you.

6.multi-party system:something "somehow" fundamentally unsuitable for China,which will just lead China to disaster.

7.worker class:Literally,they are so-call "the country's owner who dominate their own lives".Actually,they are discriminated against most.

8.socialism with Chinese characteristicsolitical despotism and economic pragmatism.

9.the people's democratic dictatorship:I figure this is the most ridiculous and weird political concept ever in the world. How can "a dictatorship" be "democratic"? In order to make a fool of the people,dictators and their accomplices added some abstract phrase("the people") to cover the contradiction in terms,which makes a fool of themselves at the same time.

10.qualified politically: You have to "study" the "theory" of the communist and accept it from the bottom of your heart.

11.non-interference in each other's internal affairs:The dictator can do whatever he want within the country he rules,which cannot be "interfereed" by any foreign forces.

12.the people:For some dictators,it is a very useful phrase to cover their contradictive statement.

 

[RonBee]

I like your definitions. Have you read George Orwell? It's uncanny how he predicted the way some people would use the language--like calling a dictatorship a people's republic. It is perhaps unintentional irony.

:roll:

 

[nicolas]

:wink:
I am happy that I live in Taiwan.

We are very very free,
so you could see our candidates criticize each other every day. :wink:
it's very interesting when you are tired watching boring TV shows.

And Sometimes they even hit each other :2gunfire:
(We almost have an election every year :wink: )

 

[Tdol]

They have shown the fights on TV here in the UK. ;-)

 

[RonBee]

And Sometimes they even hit each other :2gunfire:

Isn't that kind of electioneering illegal?

:wink:

(We almost have an election every year :wink: )

You might want to rephrase that. Say: "We have an election almost every year."

 

[Tdol]

they fight in the Parliament- I saw a scene where one politican smacked another with a chair, which puts our staid politicians to shame. ;-)

 

[Tdol]

And Sometimes they even hit each other :2gunfire:

Isn't that kind of electioneering illegal?

:wink:

Last election, our deputy Prime Minister punched someone in the face who threw an egg at him. It made him very popular. ;-)

 

[RonBee]

And Sometimes they even hit each other :2gunfire:

Isn't that kind of electioneering illegal?

:wink:

Last election, our deputy Prime Minister punched someone in the face who threw an egg at him. It made him very popular. ;-)

They egged him on.

:wink:

 

[nicolas]

Happy Chinese New Year!

They have shown the fights on TV here in the UK.

At least, you know there's a country nemed Taiwan :wink: :wink:

Isn't that kind of electioneering illegal?

Most Taiwanese are peaceful, so we don't like that. :wink:
But you know, political competition is intense in Taiwan.
I think they know each other well and maybe they are friends.
They egg each other on :wink:

They like to and desire to show themself on TV to grab votes. :wink:

We have an election almost every year (Thanks RonBee :up: )

 

[Tdol]

Happy Chinese New Year!


At least, you know there's a country nemed Taiwan :wink: :wink:

I've had many students from Taiwan. ;-)

 

[nicolas]

Dear tdol,

I've had many students from Taiwan.

Really?
I hope I will have enough money to stay in London or US for couple years.
I think that will be great and interesting.

 

[Tdol]

Dear tdol,

I've had many students from Taiwan.

Really?
I hope I will have enough money to stay in London or US for couple years.
I think that will be great and interesting.

I even had a lesson observed by the Taiwanese Cultural Attache in London and a number of his assistants, which was a little nerve-wracking.;-)

 

[Cooler]

I like your definitions. Have you read George Orwell? It's uncanny how he predicted the way some people would use the language--like calling a dictatorship a people's republic. It is perhaps unintentional irony.

:roll:

RonBee, I've never read anything of George Orwell. But I'm gonna.
And, uh, would you please make some corrections? Because writing such a post is beyond my command of English. Thank you very much!

 

[Cooler]

I posted it just to say what I want to say but have no rights to say publicly in China. Although very few people share my opinions in China, I still believe that someday the Chinese people will gain what they deserve.

 

[eric2004]

Xixi, coller, how? civil war? No CCP wanna give up their privilege, interest, and power.

Taiwan is so badly to be a country?

China People Nation is not good?

not China People Republic.

Sigh, who can be your Nation Father if you're independent? Chen Shuibian? Sigh, he can't match Sun Zhongshan.

But whatever, good luck even you're independent.

 

[RonBee]

I apologize for taking so long to get around to this.

I suppose I didn't see that many mistakes, which is why I didn't bother with any corrections the first time.

5.patriotism:If you want to be "patriotic",you have to be with the CCP at any time,no matter what it has done or has been doing to you.

I would replace "with" with "agree" there.

7.worker class:Literally,they are so-call "the country's owner who dominate their own lives".Actually,they are discriminated against most.

The expression is "so-called" and its use there is just a little awkward. I don't know if it is a direct translation, but the sentence might be better rendered as: "Literally, they are the country's oweners who control their own lives."

11.non-interference in each other's internal affairs:The dictator can do whatever he want within the country he rules,which cannot be "interfereed" by any foreign forces.

Say:

• Non-interference in each other's internal affairs: the dictator can do whatever he wants within the country he rules, and he cannot be interfered with by any foreign forces.

12.the people:For some dictators,it is a very useful phrase to cover their contradictive statement.

Instead of contradictive, say contradictory.

Overall, you did quite well.

 

[RonBee]

I like your definitions. Have you read George Orwell? It's uncanny how he predicted the way some people would use the language--like calling a dictatorship a people's republic. It is perhaps unintentional irony.

:roll:

RonBee, I've never read anything of George Orwell. But I'm gonna.
And, uh, would you please make some corrections? Because writing such a post is beyond my command of English. Thank you very much!

Actually, you are not doing all that badly.

George Orwell is most famous for 1984 and Animal Farm.

 

[RonBee]

I posted it just to say what I want to say but have no rights to say publicly in China. Although very few people share my opinions in China, I still believe that someday the Chinese people will gain what they deserve.

Try:

• I posted that just to say what I want to say but am not allowed to say publicly in China. Although very few people share my opinions in China, I still believe that someday the Chinese people will gain what they deserve.

The fifteenth anniversary of the massacre at Tiananmen Square will be June 4th. With the memory of that event in mind, I can see why Chinese might feel that they have no such thing as a right to free speech.

 

[RonBee]

P.S. Say:

• I have never read anything of George Orwell's.

Or:

• I have never read anything by George Orwell.

 

[Cooler]

The fifteenth anniversary of the massacre at Tiananmen Square will be June 4th. With the memory of that event in mind, I can see why Chinese might feel that they have no such thing as a right to free speech.

It reminds me of something I think is very funny. One of my classmate, who strongly argues with me every time I make a point censuring the CCP, once said, "On the 'Tiananmen Square' thing...I've asked my father about it and he told that it was the students who took the violent actions at first, then our government 'have to' react violently...". I didn't know what to say. In fact, I had already given up convincing this stubborn guy. By the way, he was the same guy who I found did not know there had been two Germany Countries back in the cold war. Just one sentence to describe this type of'CCP defender':Ignorance leads to indifference to dictatorship.