Anyone know how to say..... ?
bazza
February 19, 2008 at 11:50 AM posted in General Discussion"Do you have a drawing of a 24 volt 116 type wiper motor?"
Drawing as in technical dimensional drawing and wiper motor as in motor that drives windscreen wipers.
bazza
February 22, 2008 at 07:08 AM
How do you say "The better my Chinese gets, the worst my English gets.“?
bazza
February 20, 2008 at 12:53 AM
There seems to be a number of words that use it as well:
幺第 - youngest brother
幺蛾子 - lousy idea
幺儿 - youngest son
幺妹 - youngest sister
幺麽 - petty; insignificant
幺小 - puny; minute
bazza
February 20, 2008 at 12:45 AM
I just figured that there probably was so looked it up in the ABC dictionary. It seems you can also 么 but 幺 is probably less confusing.
rich
February 19, 2008 at 11:53 PM
幺!!!!! Wow, I didn't even know there was a character that means "one" but it is for the pronunciation of "yao1" when reading strings of number (e.g. phone number). wow! Bazza, you taught me something there. At first I thought you typed a character wrong. How did you even know that character, and when would you actually use it other than in what you just say?
phil
February 19, 2008 at 12:44 PM
If it helps this is what we call a windscreen wiper motor for a locomotive: 屏刮水电动机 píng guā shuǐ diàn dòng jī
dave
February 19, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Bazza you are one weird dude. I'd take a stab at it but I'm sure someone else can do a better job.
cassielin
February 22, 2008 at 04:27 PMI think the越...越...structure is more common. But 中文更好,英文更坏also can be understand.
Let me give you another example about the structure.
(我们)年龄越大,记忆力越差。(women)nianling yueda, jiyili yuecha.
The older we are, the worse memory we get.