Re:Facebook confirms data sharing with Chinese companies
by RaleyField on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:04AM
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In contexts like this Chinese is often short for Chinese communist. But if that was elaborated then you would accuse people of McCarthyism and being overly hysterical about communism.
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Re:Facebook confirms data sharing with Chinese companies
by 7Z7 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:03PM
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Do you mean "often short for China the country"? Because otherwise it does sound pretty weird for you to say "Chinese communist".
Re:Facebook confirms data sharing with Chinese companies
by RaleyField on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @04:02PM
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> Do you mean "often short for China the country"?
No. You will see people aren't bothered by Taiwan or other far eastern countries, perhaps there's a reason.
> pretty weird
Maybe English is a weird language. I'm esl so I shouldn't be teaching you.. The reason people don't spell it out is because it is shorter, seems more polite and are afraid of looking like this[0].