Re:Visual Studio for Mac
by criddell on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @04:26PM
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I don't know if it's true, but I was told once that bing means disease in Mandarin.
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Re:Visual Studio for Mac
by RandomOpinion on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:51PM
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> I don't know if it's true, but I was told once that bing means disease in Mandarin.
Sort of but not really. It depends on the intonation and even with the right intonation (bing4 / bìng), the sound maps to several other possible words aside from "disease".