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u/ZetaformGames 7d ago
"High altitude parabolas"
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u/ChestNok 7d ago
Yes. that's Chinglish translation: cause separately those characters mean "to toss stuff", like don't throw stuff from this height - something like that. But they took those two characters and translated them as a single word not as a verb and a noun, and got parabola. Chinese is weird like that. But hey that's the reason why we have this thread yo
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u/Anteprefix 1d ago
Yeah, cuz parabolas are the arc that thrown objects make, so they translated parabola as “thrown object line”.
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u/tinfoilsheild 7d ago
Buy what about high altitude sine waves? I assume those are okay?
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u/Rice-em 7d ago
aren't there parabolas in sine waves though or am i stupid
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u/tinfoilsheild 7d ago
Technically no.
Meaning in a court of law I'd be completely fine! LATER, LOSER!
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u/QuietDustt 7d ago
I get really bummed when I’m visiting a place and there are no high-altitude parabolas to be found.
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u/bazem_malbonulo 7d ago
I have seen many chinese signs where they translate throwing stuff as parabola. Maybe it has to do with the parabolic path that the object does in the air when thrown.
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u/ChestNok 8d ago
The thing is that in Chinese: "beware" and "(be) careful" are essentially the same. So the original idea is "beware (risk) of falling" whilst they did a translation with a different meaning.
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u/pangea1430 8d ago
In summery!!! No high up parabolas, no climbing, and always fall carefully! But if you wish to disregard these rules, please violate at your own risk cause we wont help you!
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u/ChestNok 7d ago
Yep. Now how would expect to get along well with China with a barrier like that. I'd say it's a language levee, not just a barrier
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u/Dunbaratu 8d ago
Given the icon next to it, "no high altitude parabolas" kinda seems like a poetic way to say don't throw stuff. A parabola is the shape of arc you get in a math problem about throwing stuff in gravity where all the complicated stuff is hand-waved away (like air friction and the fact that gravity pulls radially toward a planet's center, not straight down in parallel.)
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u/ChestNok 7d ago
Now you see how it goes, right? : in attempt to understand Chinese - you're more likely to become a mathematician..
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u/WoolfzieLOL 8d ago
Can someone untranslate this?
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u/C29H25N3O5 8d ago
Do not throw objects from high places.
(More literally, “Throwing objects from high places is strictly prohibited”)No climbing.
Beware of falling.
Violators will bear full responsibility for any consequences.
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u/ChestNok 7d ago
"bear"? there is nothing about bears. Such altitudes are not there habitat! Parabolas neither.
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u/OutcastPony 17h ago
So don’t climb but if you do fall carefully?