translation competition

user4927
 April 29, 2009, 08:54 AM posted in General Discussion

You 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? :)

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kimiik
 April 29, 2009, 09:11 AM

年年植树造林 : they plant new trees every year

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kimiik
 April 29, 2009, 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)

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user4927
 April 29, 2009, 11:39 AM

you've gotta tell them the answer! it's on Twitter -- send them a "tweet" http://twitter.com/JINGTea

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kimiik
 April 29, 2009, 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.

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user4927
 April 29, 2009, 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.

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RJ
 April 29, 2009, 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

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tvan
 April 29, 2009, 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.

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bababardwan
 April 29, 2009, 11:31 PM

RJ,

So Oprah shilled without so much as a shrill tweet? Are we all gonna fall off our perch then?