Milograd Verified Joined Jun 27, 2018 Messages 127 Feather ƒ0 Aug 17, 2018 #1 Disclaimer: All issues of ???????? ?????? [img=259x71] [/hr][/font][font=Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif][/font][font=Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif]? ??????? ????????? [/font] [font=Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif]Hutong Businesses React to Hyperinflation [/font] ???????????? 6 ??????? 2018 ???? [align=center][img=187x250]"Zealously dismantle the cabbage-worshipping traitor band !" yells Laoshi. Behind him, a starving child uses what little energy his even littler body has left to hoist a poster: "DENG TOOK OUR DENGI." On Thursday afternoon [/font][font=Georgia,serif](? ??????? ????)[/font]Under-Commissar of Information and also oversaw a collectivized farm[img=16x16] [font=Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Grande,sans-serif]?????? ??? ?????? | [img=16x16] ????????? ?? ?????[/font][/hr][/hr]
Disclaimer: All issues of ???????? ?????? [img=259x71] [/hr][/font][font=Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif][/font][font=Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif]? ??????? ????????? [/font] [font=Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif]Hutong Businesses React to Hyperinflation [/font] ???????????? 6 ??????? 2018 ???? [align=center][img=187x250]"Zealously dismantle the cabbage-worshipping traitor band !" yells Laoshi. Behind him, a starving child uses what little energy his even littler body has left to hoist a poster: "DENG TOOK OUR DENGI." On Thursday afternoon [/font][font=Georgia,serif](? ??????? ????)[/font]Under-Commissar of Information and also oversaw a collectivized farm[img=16x16] [font=Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Grande,sans-serif]?????? ??? ?????? | [img=16x16] ????????? ?? ?????[/font][/hr][/hr]
Atlantica Proud Lazarene Verified Joined Jun 13, 2018 Messages 588 Feather ƒ2,187 Nation Skadifron Region Lazarus Aug 17, 2018 #2 Laoshi is the Chinese-language word for "teacher" in Pinyin and the number is 42 is obviously an easter egg - my original inclination was that it had something to do with the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but after a bit of research (re: looking up the number 42 on Wikipedia and Ctrl-F-ing "Chinese") that appears to be a Chinese pun for the word "yes".
Laoshi is the Chinese-language word for "teacher" in Pinyin and the number is 42 is obviously an easter egg - my original inclination was that it had something to do with the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but after a bit of research (re: looking up the number 42 on Wikipedia and Ctrl-F-ing "Chinese") that appears to be a Chinese pun for the word "yes".
Milograd Verified Joined Jun 27, 2018 Messages 127 Feather ƒ0 Aug 18, 2018 #3 That is a very good guess, but actually not correct. The correct answer is considerably simpler.