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Posted on: Ten Four
December 18, 2007 at 10:27 AMHow does one say "10, 4" instead of "14"?
Posted on: Two Little Tigers Song
August 14, 2007 at 4:32 AMI was hoping for a Chinese version of Alouette. Does one exist?
Posted on: Chinese Seasonings
July 16, 2007 at 8:53 AMsorry, meant ginger, not garlic
Posted on: Chinese Seasonings
July 16, 2007 at 8:52 AMluobinzhenmei: I thought the 生 in 生姜 meant "raw" -- the way garlic is when you buy it, and that you have to specify 生 was just one of those things
Posted on: Please Speak Chinese
June 24, 2007 at 4:28 PMantoniov: 汉语: Han Chinese language. Some prefer to use that instead of 中文 because the latter might imply that mandarin is *the* language for the whole country, which is far from the case in practice. 普通话 is usually used to distinguish proper mandarin from dialects.
Posted on: Olympic Swimming
June 13, 2007 at 4:13 AMI.M.: 个人混合泳 gè rén hùn hé yǒng (?)
Posted on: Lili and Zhang Liang 16: It's Over
June 12, 2007 at 3:49 AMHow does 人生 compare/contrast with 这辈子?
Posted on: I can't buy my size
May 30, 2007 at 1:27 PMamber, Thanks for the answer. I was just using "Nike" and "size 13 shoes" as a specific example to make the grammar less awkward. My question is more about 运动品牌 than about 有的卖 -- does 运动品牌 mean the companies that own the brands, or is it talking about a particular store? Like piers mentioned, one can't "have gone to" a brand. But in the audio and the explanation here, it seems that 运动品牌 is referring to the company that makes the brand. If that's so, maybe I'm confused about 我去过了.. Does that mean that he's been to a particular store that sells those brands, or that he's been to many stores that sell those brands and he's pretty sure none of the brands make large enough shoes, or is this talking about sports company owned stores, or something else? Thanks! This is great stuff!
Posted on: I can't buy my size
May 29, 2007 at 2:38 PMI mean 有的卖
Posted on: Ten Four
December 21, 2007 at 1:45 PMamber, That's pretty astute. I was imagining someone adding a sequence of numbers for someone else, but even there, the numbers are often counting something like 10块(钱), 4块... I suppose I'd probably add a long pause or a 然后 between ambiguous numbers if they were really just numbers, but I don't know what a native speaker would do.