• Retrosound [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Today in China, the word comrade means gay. Don't know how the change happened but it had to start as irony.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      1 year ago

      I was told it started in Hong Kong because the word for comrade (tóngzhì) is vaguely phonetically similar to the word for homosexual (tóngxìngliàn)

      Does comrade mean gay in the mainland or is it just a Hong Kong and Macau thing?