Comments on: Lanxiang = killer rabbit in Google hacking battle? http://www.mercurybrief.com/2010/02/lanxiang-killer-rabbit-in-google-hacking-battle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lanxiang-killer-rabbit-in-google-hacking-battle Dispatches from Global Messengers: myths, fables, lessons Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:27:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ChasL http://www.mercurybrief.com/2010/02/lanxiang-killer-rabbit-in-google-hacking-battle/comment-page-1/#comment-314 ChasL Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:44:33 +0000 http://www.mercurybrief.com/?p=2659#comment-314 Jiaotong University I can believe, but Lanxiang Vocational? Whatever happened to fact check? It’s not hard to trace the mistake; someone mistranslated Lanxiang’s blog praising 17 students earning “technical sergeant” (equivalant of our specialist 2nd class) enlistment as “technology officers”. Try Googling this news headline in Chinese: “蓝翔技校17名学生选为技术士官入伍” As well as keywords: “Lanxiang 863” You’ll find a small circle perpetuating this allegation. For example Washington Times quoted a blogpost from China Digital Times blog, where CDT mistranslated “technical” as “technology,” and ignored the fact all the graduates enlisting were either cooks or mechanics. Jiaotong University I can believe, but Lanxiang Vocational? Whatever happened to fact check?

It’s not hard to trace the mistake; someone mistranslated Lanxiang’s blog praising 17 students earning “technical sergeant” (equivalant of our specialist 2nd class) enlistment as “technology officers”. Try Googling this news headline in Chinese:

“蓝翔技校17名学生选为技术士官入伍”

As well as keywords:

“Lanxiang 863”

You’ll find a small circle perpetuating this allegation. For example Washington Times quoted a blogpost from China Digital Times blog, where CDT mistranslated “technical” as “technology,” and ignored the fact all the graduates enlisting were either cooks or mechanics.

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