I know the saying is “don’t mess with Texas” but Texas seems to fuck itself over all the time.
I would be raising hell about this if it was my backyard.
That’s kind of but not exactly a mistranslation. The original Chinese is closer to ‘do not interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake’, but in the american vernacular, you can just say ‘don’t mess with Texas’ and it means the same thing locally. Its one of those very regional sayings.
Pretty sure “Don’t mess with Texas” began its life as an anti-littering campaign in the late 80s or early 90s. It has been appropriated to mean all sorts of things, though. The original meaning might be even more relevant to data centers…
I know the saying is “don’t mess with Texas” but Texas seems to fuck itself over all the time. I would be raising hell about this if it was my backyard.
That’s kind of but not exactly a mistranslation. The original Chinese is closer to ‘do not interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake’, but in the american vernacular, you can just say ‘don’t mess with Texas’ and it means the same thing locally. Its one of those very regional sayings.
Pretty sure “Don’t mess with Texas” began its life as an anti-littering campaign in the late 80s or early 90s. It has been appropriated to mean all sorts of things, though. The original meaning might be even more relevant to data centers…
No, the EPA just appropriated sun tzu.
Any time I think of the art of war, I think of this song:
https://youtu.be/gGYlocT1kOA
This has nothing to do with any translation of any language, it’s a US English expression.
Thank you for the correct interpretation, I really need to remember that one