translation competition
user4927
April 29, 2009 at 08:54 AM posted in General DiscussionYou can win money off Chinese tea by translating the photo caption on this website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/33274525@N05/3482999163/
Anyone know the answer? :)
tvan
April 29, 2009 at 07:31 PM
The business model reminds me of the 90's dot.com era: Hype a product, get investors to pony large amounts of capital, pay yourself and staffers/co-conspirators a large salary, go bust, take money, run.
Of course, some of these firms did contribute genuinely useful concepts for which future generations will thank the current investors.
RJ
April 29, 2009 at 04:02 PM
Twitter is actually not doing so hot despite recent efforts to enlist celebs such as Oprah to shill for them. Personally, Im shocked.
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090429/tc_pcworld/peopletrytwitteronemonththenfly_1
user4927
April 29, 2009 at 12:36 PM
you don't tweet? Twitter's cool! it was a geek secret for a couple of years but it's just gone mainstream in the West -- the guy was on Oprah...
is it big in China? i'd imagine Chinese is better to tweet in -- I think it's more succint. on the other hand don't most character sets use 2 bytes per hanzi, you probably have only 70 to play with.
kimiik
April 29, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Sorry but I don't "tweet".
I just checked the website of this british company and everything they sell look quite expensive even with a conversion in Euro.
For the same quality, you'll save up to 50% of the price if you order from Le Palais des thés.
user4927
April 29, 2009 at 11:39 AM
you've gotta tell them the answer! it's on Twitter -- send them a "tweet" http://twitter.com/JINGTea
kimiik
April 29, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Quick addition:
茶树 (tea tree) is a tea plant in chinese. As the picture was taken in a tea plantation, then 年年植树造林 means that this company wants to plant new tea plants every year to increase the size of the plantation (造林 grow a forest).
Btw, you can send the tea I won to the Cpod team in Shanghai. They are "in need". ;o)
bababardwan
April 29, 2009 at 11:31 PMRJ,
So Oprah shilled without so much as a shrill tweet? Are we all gonna fall off our perch then?