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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by wodenokoto on Monday October 21, 2019 @06:10PM (#21318048)
The author is not Chinese. It is common for people who study a foreign language to get a passion for things that to them seems more authentic.

For example, many learners of Japanese consider English loan words inferior to Sino Japanese words, even though in modern Japanese, they are equally Japanese.

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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by dnautics on Monday October 21, 2019 @06:56PM (#21318477)
I was always amused that "pine" street in San Francisco is transliterated to "plank" in chinese. Broadway, incidentally, is "avenue of 100 old people".
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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by solstice on Monday October 21, 2019 @09:16PM (#21319420)
Another example: the Chinese name for SF is Laojinshan (老金山) afaik, which translates to Old Gold Mountain and sounds nothing like Hispanic/English name. I think it dates back to the California gold rush
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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by osdiab on Monday October 21, 2019 @09:58PM (#21319661)
It's 旧金山 (jiu jin shan), but otherwise you're right.
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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by morningseagulls on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:06PM (#21320029)
And in case anyone was wondering, the "New Gold Mountain" is another name for Melbourne[0].

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=%E6%96%B0%E9%87%91%E5%B1%B1

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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by SideburnsOfDoom on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @08:53AM (#21323022)
The Melbourne Gold rush was in the 1850s-1860s so the "new" part has become inaccurate.

See also: "New Forest", England, 1079.

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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by morningseagulls on Thursday October 24, 2019 @10:39AM (#21345089)
>The Melbourne Gold rush was in the 1850s-1860s so the "new" part has become inaccurate.

It also happened just a few years (very much less than a decade) after the California Gold Rush, and there were other gold rushes after that, so I'm not sure why it's "new" either.

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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by solstice on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @12:18PM (#21325435)
啊呀, it seems I wasn't awake enough yet when posting. Thank you for the correction.
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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by binarysolo on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:06PM (#21319710)
re: Broadway - it's because the Chinese name is borrowed from NYC's Broadway - 百老匯.

Chinese translators really like to translate names and locations which impart some meaning but still sound kinda similar to actual word. Bai-lao-hui sounds kinda like Broadway to a Chinese person. Also, presumably NYC's Broadway is an avenue of a hundred old people because affluent (older) people go to watch musicals more.

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