User Comments - hpaa11

Posted on: Didn't you get my email?

Quick question re the 4th expansion sentence:

等他回来，叫他给我回电话。

Would it be OK to use 让 (ràng) instead of 叫 (jiào) in this sentence?

Thanks.

Posted on: War Zone

shenyajin: thanks!!

(i'm tempted to create a list of Monty Python quotes translated into Chinese -an altogether new level of geekiness! ;-) )

Posted on: Hate is a Very Strong Word

go_manly: thanks for creating and sharing that dictionary!

in fact, it is something i've been meaning to ask CPod to consider: add to the vocabulary manager a function that lists all words using a given character.

i don't know if the current data structure allows to do this easily. a quick and dirty way would be adding to each word tags for the characters it contains. that way, when going through the vocab list, one can simply click on the tag to get all the other words using that character that one has studied.  ideally, one would be able to do the same from the flaschards application.

i guess i should add a proposal on this in the "uservoice" forum.

Posted on: War Zone

for those fond of Monty Python quotes, learning to say "charge" is quite useful; but how do you say "run away" (once the charge runs into trouble)?

(sorry for reviving such an old thread ... just catching up with some old lessons that slipped through the cracks at the time.)

Posted on: The Final Show

I'll add my two cents, even if it is just to send a virtual hug to Amber, and also to put a word in Ken's defense.

While Ken's comment was unnecessary (and somewhat regrettable), it was not particularly nasty, and I would not call it smearing. Note that he made a conditional statement: "if that's what's happening" then (i) it would be a "bad way to start off a relationship" with your audience, and (ii) it "does affect the way people look at you". (The last part seems obviously true, as many people here were venting very negative feelings when they thought that "that" was what happened.)

In any case, I assume everyone is happy to know that "that" was not what happened. (Even if, as pointed out earlier, it was nobody's business to demand explanations about.)  And I hope we all learned a lesson about idle speculation and gossip.

Amber:  I'm glad to hear that Amber you found a job doing what you like and what you do so well. A belated thanks for all your contributions to CPod. (I still revisit some of your DA episodes, and remember fondly your lively bantering with Clay on QW.) My very best wishes for your life in NYC and beyond!

Some gratuitious rambling: CPod has an excellent-and-ever-improving product at its base (the podcast and associated learning tools/interface); on top of that, a sizable part of the user's experience comes from contributions with the very personal seal of the many talented individuals who have made their way to the company: Amber certainly made her mark, as have done more recently JP, Marco, and Pete. Obviously, each contributor will eventually leave CPod as their life/careers pull them elsewhere (though someone should lock Jenny to her office chair and throw away the key!), so this portion of CPod is ever changing. But I love the  fact that the company's culture allows both newcomers and old-timers to constantly try new things and offer them to the audience.