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A comment on The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019). Parent comment

Re:The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019) by thaumasiotes on Sunday December 20, 2020 @09:41PM (#25491641)
> The funny part is that I know Asian Americans who say it without knowing where it came from.

I know many Asian Chinese; they tend to really like saying "long time no see" because they find the saying so intuitive.

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Re:The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019) by bobthepanda on Sunday December 20, 2020 @10:24PM (#25491858)
I mean, long time no see is a word for word translation for a Chinese greeting (in Cantonese, hou noi mou gin)
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Re:The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019) by thaumasiotes on Sunday December 20, 2020 @10:30PM (#25491893)
In Mandarin, 好久不见 háo jiǔ bú jiàn. It's not really word-for-word; the Mandarin version breaks down as very-longtime-no-see.
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