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Posted on: Sina's Microblogs
On June 07 at 10:00 AM by bababardwan

short attention spans ...which reminds me. There has been a lot of concern about the effect of modern communication on attention span in kids and... Read more

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On June 07 at 9:55 AM by bababardwan

we always called him Brian ....哈哈大笑。。我非常喜欢 ! Read more

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On June 07 at 9:54 AM by catherinem

Having lived in Italy I can say that I know more about soccer than I let on in this show ;) I do like watching it (and love watching football, if you... Read more

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Posted on: Big Darn Crabs
On June 07 at 9:52 AM by bababardwan

Thanks for explaining that Catherine. I missed it too,and know I mingbai, I love it...good one. Keep that sense of humour coming. As you know it also... Read more

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On June 07 at 9:39 AM by Tal

Apropos of nothing, A Timelapse Journey through Japan . Read more

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Posted on: Talking Numbers
On June 07 at 9:32 AM by catherinem

This is not a system we created. In fact we were very hesitant to include any romanization system at all, as there is no real standard for Shanghaines... Read more

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Posted on: Talking Numbers
On June 07 at 9:15 AM by RJ

The Sidney Lau romanisation system was developed by Sidney Lau, the principal of the Hong Kong Government Language School, for the radio series, "Cant... Read more

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Posted on: Sina's Microblogs
On June 07 at 9:14 AM by Tal

The bottom line is, people love gadgets and gimmicks. And communicating. And 'sharing' trivia about their lives. I'm not a user, but I'd guess that mi... Read more

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Posted on: Talking Numbers
On June 07 at 8:35 AM by sydcarten

I'm familiar with the Yale romanization of Cantonese, but I've never heard of Sidney Lau. Do you have any links I could look at? Read more

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On June 07 at 8:23 AM by suxiaoya

Yeah, he's quite a character... we always called him Brian instead of Alan, and he couldn't understand how we could possibly not know his name, failin... Read more