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...I hate laughing at the downfall of my own country, but we definitely had it coming. I guess Chinese is the new lingua franca. Anyway, can someone help me understand why "Ma" in Mandarin means both weed and mom? How do I buy weed in Beijing?
Mandarin has 4 (technically 5) tones so "ma" could be any one of those 4 different pronunciations. Furthermore, there are many completely different words that have the same tone/pronunciation. You just learn through context (same way as you do with English homophones)
Mom in mandarin is 媽 (mā) whereas weed is 麻 (má). Colloquially you can also say 大麻 (dàmá) for weed.
Also, even before you go into the nitty gritty, there are homonyms in English too, so I don't get why OP needs an explanation.
How legal is weed in China? I get the impression the regime is anti drugs
take this as you will, it is copy pasted from a site. most other sources i saw up to reading this said the same shit, so it is probably fairly accurate
The Punishment for Marijuana in China
Thanks!
Possession is much lighter than I was expecting.
There is probably a lot of pressure to give up the supplier.
yeah, i have no idea, on the granular level like that i would image it is quite a complicated thing, as it is anywhere
Just spit balling here but probably execution level legal.
I think you get a fine up to 2000 Yuan? I could be wrong.
you also use ma at the end of the sentences to form a question, to make it more confusing
Not to mention Chinese is quite the endeavor to learn, Esperanto would make way more sense.
U can ask Mom for weed by saying ma ma
Make it a question with a third ma.
So "ma ma ma?" (妈麻吗?)
You can't. At least not legally.