Superstition Redux: Expansion Sentences as Fortune Cookies

henning

October 05, 2008, 12:13 PM posted in General Discussion

I can't fight it. When I work through the Expansion sentences, my brain always tries to attach some deep wisdom or meaning to those isolated sentences. And some of those really function really well as horoscopes or fortune cookies:

钱得用在正经地方，可不能乱花。
(You should spend your money on serious stuff. Don't waste it.)

你装得太满了，不好拿。
(You've packed it too full, it's cumbersome now.)

最近不靠谱的新闻真是越来越多了。
(There has been more and more unreliable news lately.)

 

And what hidden messages might lie in?

电脑坏了的话，要去指定的地点维修。
(If the computer's broken, you have to go to a designated repair shop.)

工地上机器轰鸣，说话要很大声才行。
(You have to speak loudly in order to be heard over the roar of the construction machinery.)

 

Try it. If you do it skillfully you can add a perfect new layer of paranoioa upon your life ;)