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6988

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6989

Interesting! Thanks for teaching me that :durtle_noice:

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6990

馬鹿

Horse deer means idiot. It doesn’t make sense because they’re both such nice animals.

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6991

If you don’t know, it’s meant to convey that the person who can’t differenciate between a horse and a deer is an idiot. Or so they say :sweat_smile:

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6992

As Ahrina said, it refers to a Chinese idiom - “point at a deer, call it a horse” - which in turn refers to the story described here! (It’s a darker origin than I realized, describing how those who speak the truth against an evil leader are punished, more than simple idiocy.)

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6993

Ah yes, the classic Party slogans: war is peace, freedom is slavery, deer is horse.

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