Robinsons CNY Greetings Are So Awkward, Netizens Laugh While Chipping In To Improve Them

[The_King]

 

 

 

Netizens Help Improve Robinsons CNY Decorations By Suggesting Alternatives

People have been discussing Robinsons CNY decorations, and it’s apparently not because of their aesthetic appeal.

This year, the department store decided to take a risk with new CNY phrases rather than the classic 4-word idioms we’re so used to.

Props to them for innovating. Sadly, it didn’t turn out as planned, as we’ll soon see below.

Robinsons CNY decorations have very awkward phrasing

 

 

The first phrase that drew netizens’ attention was “欢乐到笑”, which translates to “so happy until you laugh”.

 

 

 

The second phrase, “财宝到发”, is a little more questionable.

 

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It literally means “treasures until prosper”.

What’s wrong with the phrasing?

 

This isn’t your typical case of people having a poor grasp of Chinese. Firstly, there’s really nothing grammatically wrong with the phrases.

The characters used were correct too.

The kerfuffle was mostly due to the phrases being unconventional and, dare we say, cringe-worthy and borderline weird.

 

 

 

8world News described it as being “尴尬要死”, which literally means “awkward to death.”

Netizens chip in to improve CNY greetings

Chinese is a difficult language to master. Most people may struggle to get the basics right even after years of learning it.

Fortunately, some sympathetic netizens have taken the liberty to correct the phrases.

Here are some suggestions they shared on Facebook.

Some feel that adding punctuation – in this case, a comma – will make the words flow better and make more sense.

 

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Others think that the choice of characters could have been wrong.

Here, they’ve replaced “宝” meaning “precious” with “爆”, the word for “explosive”. This gives the phrase a new meaning along the lines of “fortune exploding into abundance”. Very prosperous indeed.

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This one’s for Forrest Gump fans out there, “step on poop, laugh after losing”. We gather it could be a slightly crude, yet festive version of “keep calm and carry on”.

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On the other hand, this netizen thinks we shouldn’t take things so seriously. She wrote in Chinese, “Who cares! Anything goes as long as there’s a big sale.”

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Not a massive fail after all

Guess this goes to show how one person’s mistake can bring a ton of laughter.

In the true spirit of Chinese New Year, these decorations have brought people together.

It’s good to see how netizens really came through, by making a collaborative effort to save what could have cost Robinsons some long-lasting embarrassment.

Featured image adapted from 8world News.  

 

 

 

https://mustsharenews.com/robinsons-cny-decorations/

 

[aaur4man]

Dono who can read it nowadays

[meng.huat]

CECA Pinoy dont know chinese language.

anyhow approve because it looks like chinese words.

[meng.huat]

2 hours ago, aaur4man said:

Dono who can read it nowadays

 

 

U didn't take chinese as second language?

[aaur4man]

1 hour ago, meng.huat said:

 

 

U didn't take chinese as second language?

 

Got...I meant youngsters lol

[meng.huat]

40 minutes ago, aaur4man said:

 

Got...I meant youngsters lol

 

moi dont recognize those japanese characters... moi yangster

[unclefcuker]

Ceca working hard to come up with those characters.