Why is English so weirdly fun? Because a sentence like “All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life” is 100% grammatically correct. Yep, that’s real. That’s English just casually moonwalking over logic.

But wait, Mandarin Chinese steps in like: “Hold my dumpling.”

Enter the legendary poem “Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den.”

It tells a totally coherent story about a poet named Shi Shi who REALLY wanted to eat ten lions. But every single word in the original Chinese version is pronounced “shi.”

That’s right: the whole poem sounds like a tongue-twister written by a sleep-deprived panda.

You: “English is hard.”
China: “Shī shì shí shī shǐ shì shí shī.”
Translation: Good luck, buddy.

Behold:

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