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by thaumasiotes 2692 days ago
> We'll never get a full-scale English equivalent of [施氏食獅史]

To be fair, there is no equivalent of 施氏食獅史 in Chinese either. The text is written in classical Chinese and is not intelligible when read aloud. Obviously, the pronunciation of classical Chinese was different.

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> is not intelligible when read aloud

In that case I should definitely not use that as an example of this point! Thanks. :-)