Call me quirky,

[pastwatcher]

but I feel compelled:

有没有可能：只是四十只石狮子和四只死狮子？

Comments

[lord-codfish.livejournal.com]

That's actually not a bad translation.

[dr_whom]

Does anybody call you Quirky? (I rather hope not.)

[pastwatcher]

No (shudder). :) But quirkiness reminds me why I like the nickname Quirk.

[kat-ravensong.livejournal.com]

Wow, I totally could almost read that. I just forgot the character for lion.

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But I'm confused none the less. It isn't exactly the poem, and I don't understand to what else you are referring.

[pastwatcher]

Well, we don't know how many of them are dead and how many are stone--maybe 40 are stone and 4 are deat? :)

[pastwatcher]

*dead

[timmypowg.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there some tongue-twister in Chinese like that?

[pastwatcher]

Yes, it's a rather silly response to that. The question is whether the 44 lions are dead or made of stone.

[kat-ravensong.livejournal.com]

Well, that's the thing. I was under the impression that it was 44 dead or 44 made of stone, that you couldn't split the difference or anything like that.

[pastwatcher]

Well, I was providing an alternative option to what the poem said! One of many that it had forgotten to consider...