(October 3, 2022 at 11:08 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: in colloquial chinese, the word for vegetable and the phrase meaning vegetarianism are both used as slangs to mean effete, weak, impotent or incompetent due to gullibility or foolishness.
recently the newly minted term “vegetarian goose” has been used on chinese blogosphere to describe Vladimir putin in order to dodge tight state censors who routinely delete posts or lock threads disparaging of the russian leader and the russian war effort in ukraine.
apparently the phrase “vegetarian goose” sounds exactly like “foolish russian” in chinese.
