this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2024
111 points (100.0% liked)
no context
1208 readers
188 users here now
A place for posting anything out of context. Please caption any posts PIC
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Calqued "hot dog" (热狗) with transliterated "doughnut" (多拿滋), which is like "lots of - get - (to) grow/nourish" if you attempt to parse it as a real Chinese word (character meanings often influence the specific transliteration). The "zī" character (滋) is also used phonetically in the transliteration of AIDS (艾滋病), which is the connection, but I still can't really see how this happened.