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Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress (www.reuters.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Never heard that phrase before. What language might that be if you don't mind me asking?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well, in Russia in early 00s (my childhood) they'd say that about things looking like Chinese toys of cheap plastic. As in "Chinese means cheap, but low-quality and probably a toy". Such things were indeed mostly produced in China, so. It's rather that back then you'd sometimes have better things, now everything is like this.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    In English we used to use the word "Scotch", like Scottish. We still use it to refer to scotch tape - cheap tape.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    And the phonetic transcription of that is how we still call that in Russian.

    Well, with "Chinese" in Russian it didn't stick. I'm somewhat sad, I think certain political conditions also make the Russian language poorer and weaker with time. In 00s I, despite being autistic, could somewhat "feel the wave" of the people around me. Now it just ... feels as if someone tracks and tries to slowly kill all the good things, as if just being in control is not enough for those people.

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