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chracol
Posted on: Asking About Prices
June 30, 2012 at 3:05 PMI always find staff at franchised convenience stores and fast food outlets so very keen to use their MacLanguage at the same time as I'm keen to use my Mandaglish. It's a little like fencing where as soon as one competitor shows a weakness the other gets in quick for the kill. So Newbies be warned. Going to Maccas in Tchynah is never as straightforward as the dialogue for this lesson would suggest.
Also to give them the idea that I know what I'm talking about I now growl 多钱而啊 for "how much" instead of the more formal 多少钱。 I'm not sure whether I've got them fooled but I believe it's a parry that can't be defended with an English response.
Posted on: Chinese Medicine for Hot Weather
June 25, 2012 at 5:32 AM使药三分毒 。。。是这个’使‘吗？
Posted on: Hiring an Intern
June 25, 2012 at 4:30 AMI'm not sure that they do have a hang-up? Presidents having oral sex in their office is just not such a good look. Not exactly presidential. JFK's antics seemed to enhance his reputation and Clinton remains in the 'inner circle' now no matter whether the Democrats or Republicans are in charge. It's the British who are a little more puritanical but they usually get caught being whipped or chained up to a bedpost in Soho by a dominatrix. Benjamin Franklin and a host of early Amercican Presidents had chequered histories where bedtime was concerned. The South African president is a practicing polygamist and he changes wives and girlfriends like some presidents change their opinions. Of course, when is comes to the French they have always been somewhat loose with their libidos almost as a matter of style. C'est la vie, n'est pas? 人生就是如此！
Posted on: Hiring an Intern
June 24, 2012 at 3:05 AMOK good thanks ... we're both kidding (he's a Clinton and she was a Clintern) and now I have a funky Chinese saying that I can memorize for the future ... :))!
Posted on: Hiring an Intern
June 23, 2012 at 3:19 AMI'm not exactly sure what you are saying. I'm just making a joke. Maybe it's not funny; maybe it fell on deaf ears. It's a play on words.
Clinton was hardly a 'playboy'. Throughout his life he dallied, for sure. He was, still is, attractive to women. Lewinsky was smitten and he took advantage but he didn't hold her down. It was voluntary. What he did wrong was lie - "I did not have sex with that woman".
If you are saying, and I may have read the Chinese wrong, that ML was a 'heroic beauty who faced up to difficulty' then I would disagree.
Posted on: Hiring an Intern
June 22, 2012 at 12:55 PMAh, but she was a clintern?
Posted on: Annoying Popups
June 22, 2012 at 5:27 AMSure - tan2 = spring, springy and tanli24 = elasticity, although the character is also dan4 = bullet, pellet, bomb, which I kind of like - danchuguanggao for those pop ups has got a nice ring to it, what?
Posted on: Annoying Popups
June 21, 2012 at 4:47 PMThere is no noun for 'pop-up'? We say 跳出来广告？
I have also found 单出式广告 tánchūshìguǎnggào
Posted on: The New Intern
June 21, 2012 at 4:45 AMThey put 实习 stickers on the rear windows of cars here in Guangzhou for learner drivers or training drivers too ...
Posted on: The Quick, Smooth 马
August 24, 2012 at 9:10 AMIn Australia the drovers say you need an old dog for a hard road which I like and which means roughly the same thing as the Chinese idiom