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Posted on: 经济适用男
On July 28 at 11:11 PM by jloo

谢谢jiaojie。不好意思问了这么多。 非常感谢你帮我。非常有帮助的！ Read more

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Posted on: Sobriety Check
On July 28 at 3:05 PM by RJ

Actually I was playing off of Ken Carroll's use of the quote during his troubles, not so long ago. I do miss the "Glib one" at times. Ken that is. No... Read more

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On July 28 at 12:08 PM by floalvarez

They call foreigners “老外”or “外国人”。外地人 is refers more to people from out of town. My impression is “老外”tends to refer to caucasians while “外国人”... Read more

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On July 28 at 11:45 AM by zaphekiah

Like the new profile pic! Read more

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On July 28 at 10:36 AM by ideotek

I meant "stuck on VERBS" where we might use nouns... :) I hope I'm still correct. Read more

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Posted on: Issues with Flavor
On July 28 at 10:33 AM by ideotek

That's a nice explanation. Thanks, babyeggplant! Read more

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On July 28 at 10:33 AM by podster

I see "jia li you shi" (我家里有点儿事） is translated as "having family issues" (so maybe someone is having personal problems, such as got sick and could no... Read more

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On July 28 at 6:21 AM by ouyangjun116

I think the 看不起外地人 remark was referring to Shanghainese looking down upon other mainland Chinese not from Shanghai. In this case I don't think it was... Read more

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On July 28 at 5:11 AM by mark

你太夸奖了吧！ （加上一些上下文才有可能更清楚。） Read more

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On July 28 at 4:19 AM by crabstix

What would be the best way to deflect praise whilst using phrases which native chinese do?  Read more