[Idiom] Zhang Dai lived a parade when the moon came out and the lanterns shone.

[sitifan]

Zhang Dai lived a parade when the moon came out and the lanterns shone. (Jonathan D. Spence: Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man)
https://books.google.com.tw/books?i...6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q="lived a parade"&f=false
What does "lived a parade" mean?

 

[Tarheel]

I was hoping you were going to tell me what "lived a parade" means.
;-)

I suspect that it's a direct translation from Chinese. You can, of course, say somebody likes parades.

 

[abaka]

It seems to mean he was joyously happy.

It's a rare phrase, but you can find it across the internets.

 

[bubbha]

Typo for "loved a parade"?

 

[Tdol]

It seems to mean he was joyously happy.

It's a rare phrase, but you can find it across the internets.

I get exactly two results for the search- one from this book and one from a text that says how our ancestors have lived - a parade. And four images. It appears that not all tinternets are equal and we don't get that joyous happiness round my way. And, to make things worse, people rain on parades. :up:

 

[sitifan]

I get exactly two results for the search- one from this book and one from a text that says how our ancestors have lived - a parade. And four images. It appears that not all tinternets are equal and we don't get that joyous happiness round my way. And, to make things worse, people rain on parades. :up:

What does the word mean?

 

[Tarheel]

Sitifan, even Tdol makes typos.

 

[Tdol]

What does the word mean?

It's not a typo- a British comedian introduced the term tinternet as a way of mocking the rubbish that is published on the internet. It has a regional British dialect feature, where t' is used before nouns. Tinternet is where idiots collect on the internet. I stand by the usage and will use it again.

 

[Tarheel]

I'm not current on American comedians, much less British ones.
:-?

 

[emsr2d2]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/t'internet

If you're on Facebook, search for Peter Kay (British comedian) and a section of his stand-up show about "You wanna get on that t'internet". I can't find a YouTube video of it unfortunately.

 

[Tdol]

He does have his moments, does Mr Kay. And like whoever it was who gave us the term interwebs, we are the richer for it.