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[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And I'm still waiting on the second character of penguin. I'm guessing that's Chinese doing its thing again?

[–] salty_mariner@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The second character, 鵝, means goose. So 企鵝 is literally something like, "standing on tiptoes goose". But no one would look at it that closely, to everyone it's just a penguin.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, well that all makes sense then.