stigsbandit34z [they/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agoDid the US learn from Kent State?message-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up163arrow-down1message-squareDid the US learn from Kent State?stigsbandit34z [they/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square33fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBartsbigbugbaglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 months agoI hate to be that guy, but it’s tiananmen. 天 = tian =heaven, 安 = an = peace, 门 = men = gate. 天安门。
minus-squareredline@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agonever apologise for being a pedant, you love to see it
minus-squareHestia [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI’m American. That’s my excuse.
minus-squareBartsbigbugbaglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoSadly, I am also trapped in this pisspot with ya, I just also happen to have learned a bit of Chinese over the last year, and proposed in front of Chairman Mao in tiananmen when I was there, so I am pretty intimately aware of how to spell it lol
minus-squareHestia [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoYeah, tbh I think I just rolled with the typo from the previous comment…
minus-squaredriving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoNot a typo, plain ignorance.
I hate to be that guy, but it’s tiananmen. 天 = tian =heaven, 安 = an = peace, 门 = men = gate. 天安门。
never apologise for being a pedant, you love to see it
I’m American. That’s my excuse.
Sadly, I am also trapped in this pisspot with ya, I just also happen to have learned a bit of Chinese over the last year, and proposed in front of Chairman Mao in tiananmen when I was there, so I am pretty intimately aware of how to spell it lol
Yeah, tbh I think I just rolled with the typo from the previous comment…
Not a typo, plain ignorance.