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Tal
Posted on: World Cup Talk
June 24, 2010 at 1:16 AM
Posted on: World Cup Talk
June 23, 2010 at 1:29 PMNever seen Deliverance then, old sport? Anyway if you can get a result like that in 5 mins with MS Paint you're a better man than I, Gunga Din.
Funny? 肯定!
Posted on: World Cup Talk
June 23, 2010 at 4:13 AM传 can be seen in other common words,
e.g. 宣传 xuānchuán = disseminate; give publicity to
对这个新产品，我们作了很多宣传。
传统 chuántǒng = tradition, traditional
她非常喜欢传统音乐。
射 can be seen in 射靶 shèbǎ (= to shoot at a target) and also in 射箭 shèjiàn (= archery)
那人拉弓把箭射了出去。
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 12: A Dodgy Opportunity
June 20, 2010 at 8:08 AMI am not offended, merely surprised that you didn't think of mentioning it to me. (If I was thinking of doing a similar thing with a transcript you had produced, I think I would sound you out about it first.) As I said, thanks again for your effort and the credit you give me. No snow gathering on this ball. 
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 12: A Dodgy Opportunity
June 20, 2010 at 5:28 AMThat's not what I said is it? Might have been nice to be consulted however.
Posted on: 人类的起源
June 19, 2010 at 10:01 PM
Actually though the Bible does have some good bits in it if you can appreciate great poetry and stories. (It can also tell us a lot about the mindset of Bronze Age tent dwellers.) It's spoiled by religious people, especially those who insist on taking it as literally true.
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 12: A Dodgy Opportunity
June 19, 2010 at 9:49 PM
Well Bob, this is a surprise. Thanks for "updating" my work like this, very considerate of you.
Posted on: Getting into the habit with 习惯 (xíguàn)
June 19, 2010 at 9:23 AMPerhaps you could say:
适应点吧
or
忍者点吧
Posted on: 人类的起源
June 18, 2010 at 7:21 AMThanks for the compliment tanglang!
On the subject of evolution and religion, I am not myself a believer in any deity, but I don't necessarily see any conflict between religion and evolution. I don't really understand why many religious people should feel so threatened, frightened or demeaned by the facts of human evolution. If there is a creator, then evolution could be seen as simply how he/she/it gets things done, right?
Re. Hitler and others who have misused Darwin's ideas, it seems to me that many people do not understand what Darwin really meant by "survival of the fittest" (设置生存). He didn't mean survival of the strongest, or the most ruthless or cruel. He meant survival of the 'best adapted', survival of those creatures most in harmony with their environment.
I agree wholeheartedly that it is so important (and actually wonderful) that we understand the kinship, not just of all humanity, but of all life on Earth. This is a thing 进化论 reveals to us. Darwin's great book concludes, in grand and beautiful style:
"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
Posted on: World Cup Talk
June 24, 2010 at 1:57 PMWhoah, dude. 小心点儿！You might just get a scrum of yankee manhood landing on top of you. Anyway isn't the armour necessary because the game is so uncivilized?