Don_DickleM to Explain Like I'm FiveEnglish • 7 days agoELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?message-square43arrow-up154arrow-down120
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minus-squareKalciferlinkfedilinkEnglish16•7 days 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•7 days 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’
minus-squareRandom123linkfedilink6•7 days agoIt was poorly constructed i too couldnt figure out the hell they were saying until i saw comments lol
minus-squareKalciferlinkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-27 days 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-26 days 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-squaretiredofsametablinkfedilink2•7 days agoMaybe OP is from some place with a high Vietnamese population so there were rumors about this? TX, LA, or CA maybe.
I don’t understand that sentence.
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?
It was poorly constructed i too couldnt figure out the hell they were saying until i saw comments lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_wives'_tale
That’s still a rather incomprehensible sentence.
Rephrased to it’s intended meaning, that would be:
Maybe OP is from some place with a high Vietnamese population so there were rumors about this? TX, LA, or CA maybe.