greed-the-dorkalicious:

anarcho-shindouism:

we were discussing how mandarin is full of puns and the shi poem came up

this is the shi poem

wtf chinese

EDIT: apparently the poem doesn’t make sense when heard but it makes sense when read

CHINESE IS SCARY WTF

Date: ██/██/████
Test Material: 施氏食狮史 (“Lion-Eating Poet In The Stone Den”), by Yuen Ren Chao. “Lion-Eating Poet” is a 92-character poem written in Classical Chinese, in which every syllable is pronounced “shi” (albeit with varying tones).

Results: SCP-423 demanifested from its journal, but did not manifest within the test document. After 10 minutes, researchers were about to report a containment breach, when SCP-423 remanifested within its journal, stating that it had “got(ten) lost trying to find the way in”.

(via perelka-l)