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I remember about 15 years ago someone on a random IRC channel translated them and was all 'wow, don't eat with those, keep them safe' but I never wrote it down.
I did keep them safe though.
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lol it's in traditional chinese (used in hongkong & taiwan) which i can barely read so you'll have to ask @Chris_Chan, i am only able to understand the 2 circled portions
you said you used automated translation? do you have the chinese characters you extracted?
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They're from 1929?
Holy frick
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I can't say for sure without the context but yeah it states October 1929 there, I can ask my wife later she's not as r-slurred as me I think
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Thanks for your help by the way. The hard part is probably a name? That would make sense being the part you've translated being a date and dedication.
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it could be lol but there are too many other characters there and names are usually 2-3 characters long only. you can try OCR for it!
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OCR is not working worth a darn on any of this
I guess the handwriting varies too much from any of the common print fonts that it's been trained on
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I think because some of the ink has faded so it's hard for the OCR to pick it up, but someone who grew up learning traditional chinese should be able to guess and recognise the characters easily
you can try something like this to draw the characters and then use google translate: https://www.purpleculture.net/chinese_handwriting_input/
i think what @Retaaaard said about it being a wedding gift is probably correct
singaporeans aren't the best at the chinese language because it's taught up till 16 or 18 years of age and i hated it
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Yeah the top two chars on the right column are most affected, the grooves are still there though (the characters are engraved)
I'll give that site a try
I assume the age might have affected the way the characters are drawn and the wording also, if it's mainland pre-simplified-traditional I don't know how far that diverged from HK/Taiwan modern traditional which is what most modern translators will be trained on.
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Gosh
They're probably ivory then
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Also just the basic google translate thing and it didn't yield anything useful
The script is a bit intricate
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I think there couples chopsticks for a wedding, you give chopsticks to a couple on their wedding to wish happiness and prosperity becuase there are two halves of one whole that need each other and that you hope they stay together.
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I extracted the text using Google lens
伉永愛 (Mr and Mrs Eternal Love?)
西麼一千九百十九年(The date of 1929?)
費纳生惠存(Cant determine)
奥居耀贈(Indicating it's a gift and the person that gave them?)
From the translations cowtools I've used it appears that its a wedding gift for a couple from 1929 pledging eternal love between the to.
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oh wait @Retaaaard has traditional chinese characters in his flair so maybe he can help
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Sorry, my Chink is incredibly poor.
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