Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?message-squaremessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down118
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minus-squareKalcifer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months ago ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA? I don’t understand that sentence.
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_wives'_tale
minus-squareKalcifer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-22 months ago ELI5 How come it seems now the old [wives’] tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA? That’s still a rather incomprehensible sentence.
minus-squareFeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoRephrased to it’s intended meaning, that would be: ELI5 how come it seems now [that] the old [wives’] tale about Vietnamese people eating pets [is now being applied to] immigrants into the USA?
minus-squareRandom123@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoIt was poorly constructed i too couldnt figure out the hell they were saying until i saw comments lol
minus-squaretiredofsametab@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoMaybe OP is from some place with a high Vietnamese population so there were rumors about this? TX, LA, or CA maybe.
minus-squareMunkisquisher@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoThis is funny as the Vietnamese joke about Chinese this way, they have a saying that translates as, ‘the only thing they don’t eat with 4 legs is a table’
I don’t understand that sentence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_wives'_tale
That’s still a rather incomprehensible sentence.
Rephrased to it’s intended meaning, that would be:
It was poorly constructed i too couldnt figure out the hell they were saying until i saw comments lol
Maybe OP is from some place with a high Vietnamese population so there were rumors about this? TX, LA, or CA maybe.
This is funny as the Vietnamese joke about Chinese this way, they have a saying that translates as, ‘the only thing they don’t eat with 4 legs is a table’
Even chairs?