adevyish: Mwa ha?

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adevyish) wrote,
@ 2008-09-14 16:41:00

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chinese culture, language-ing

Mwa ha?
"Brainwashing [dates to] 1950, a literal translation of Chinese xi nao."

And I always thought it was the other way around :o

→ List of English words of Chinese origin (an example of a bad Wikipedia article)

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