35 thoughts on “Anyone Speak Chinese?”

  10. Samuel

    HOW DO YOU KNOW IT’S CHINESE?!?!?!
    Most clothing companies use Lee and Fung, who in turn source from many countries.

    Ig nor ant

  12. Napoleon

    Seriously though, anybody know what it says, without making a wise/racist crack about takeaways? It’s probably just details about batches or something, but I seem to remember a story of someone who got a paper lantern that was made in China. There was a note inside detailing the terrible work conditions in the factory.

    1. Soundings

      If you can detail anything in 8 characters, then maybe we should all learn Chinese, Twitter would be transformed, and Twitlonger would be redundant.

      I agree with you though, be interested to know what it says particularly given the perception of poor working conditions in Asian factories.

        1. Soundings

          8 words *and* characters, I don’t know Chinese but don’t they have thousands of characters with each one representing a word?

      2. Father Filth

        You jest, but it is a very compact language. you can fit a lot of text into a twitter length message, compared to the English language. There’s a talk about it somewhere on the TED site.. I’ll try and follow up with a link.

  14. Little Lord Fauntleroy

    It’s a person’s name followed by a note indicating five ‘cases’ or ‘lots’, presumably confirming they have completed same (for about €0.05).

  16. Hashtag Diversity

    “I know you don’t normally do this, but can you tell everyone I’m one of the 5 Labour Party voters in Ireland”

  19. Leo Keohane

    That looks like someone’s name. Zhang Gui Ying. It says “Zhang Gui Ying – 5 pieces”. The measure word in this case which “pieces” refers to is used for articles of clothing.

    The handwriting is really bad. It looks like it was written by a child or …a foreigner.

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