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Um ji gui guo?

PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 12 12:00 pm
by Siva
This blew my mind lately.

If you've heard a civilian NPC in the HK district of China, you've probably heard that phrase.

I asked a new friend of mine who is familiar with different dialects of Chinese what this actually means, and the root of the sentence or phrase is 'Saviour' and 'Confusion'.

From this bark alone you can kind of tell the depth that they went to in making the world and cities within the world believeable in Deus Ex. Considering how deeply rooted in chinese history that phrase is, ignoring the poor transliteration, it's still very deep. To the point where the NPC's are almost believably self-aware.

Just wanted to share it with you.

PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 12 1:11 pm
by Dae
Thanks for sharing. :) After so many years I as well still remember the phrase...

PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 12 6:18 pm
by clyzm
I say it all the time to my Chinese friends tbh

I love that phrase

PostPosted: Sat Aug 17, 13 7:28 am
by The RZA
lol just heard that tonight