[lit-ideas] Re: "You Like Chinese Food"
- From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:18:31 -0400
> It may be argued that Chinese fortune cookie messages should employ
Chinese concepts. And "OK" is _not_ a Chinese (but an American) concept.
Fortune cookies are often written by American college students, some
near Canal Street bakeries in NYC, who are required to produce fifty or
one hundred fortunes a week for low pay. They are encouraged to write
ungrammatical fortunes, to give the impression of Chinese writers
struggling with American English.
As far as I know, they are not allowed to quote Master Sun or Master Wu
on Chinese war strategy. They are certainly not allowed to produce dark,
ironic fortune cookie messages like "That was not chicken," "Kitchen
workers no wash hands, "or "Everyone in restaurant knows you are a
failure."
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