User Comments - Tal
Tal
Posted on: Pinyin Section 4: R
July 17, 2009 at 7:41 AM*bows* Zardoz... that's Sean Connery right? Also fine entertainment as I recall. Aah, those were the days.
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 13: Wang Meets the Big Boss
July 17, 2009 at 7:06 AMYou always inspire me, jenny.
Posted on: Pinyin Section 4: R
July 17, 2009 at 5:39 AMA gauntlet has been cast down my fellow poddies. What user can post a video still from the now priceless copy of part 1 of The Radical Show which must still exist on some masochists's hard drive? (Odd, I seem to recall deleting mine moments after first viewing it!)
Just like The Star Wars Christmas special, I now feel that this little fim was actually infused with greatness. Life's like that isn't it? Just the other day I saw a film which really moved me. It was The Sound of Music. (In Klingon.)
Posted on: No TV Before Your Test!
July 17, 2009 at 4:13 AMThat's right dude! Civilization is a comfort trap! There's no going back! (Until we have no choice of course, and sadly the day of reckoning isn't that far off.) Civilization was invented by those who wanted to sit at the top of the pile, lording it over the workers!
Posted on: No TV Before Your Test!
July 17, 2009 at 3:58 AMWell in my book we humans really went off the rails when we gave up hunter-gathering and took up agriculture, let's see... about 10,000 years ago. Since then everything seems to have gotten worse. 
Posted on: Pinyin Section 4: R
July 17, 2009 at 3:50 AMHey go ahead and speak your mind dude, 'let 100 flowers bloom', I believe in it! ;-)
Posted on: Pinyin Section 4: R
July 17, 2009 at 3:16 AMxiaophil, the CPod team (especially John & Pete) might be hesitant to tackle the subject of radicals (again)! There was an extremely short-lived video series here about 6 months ago called 'The Radical Show'. It was one of those things that was so awful it was actually brilliant (fulankelin's Pinyin Pirate is like Steven Spielberg in comparison!), but there was a chorus of disapproval after the first part and I think it never made it to the second episode. I haven't checked but I think it's even 'disappeared' from the archive now. 
This series on Pinyin and getting the sounds of Chinese right is most definitely worthwhile and very well done, by the way. Thank you once again CPod stars!
Posted on: Athlete Injuries
July 17, 2009 at 3:02 AM上 here indicates where the person is hurt. Again this sounds illogical to an English ear and cannot be translated literally, (my leg [located on] has hurt/injury? - obviously nonsense.)
You will notice of course that 上 is one of those words generally used to indicate where something is, e.g. 我的书在桌子上。 = My book is on the table.
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 13: Wang Meets the Big Boss
July 17, 2009 at 2:42 AMjenny, I'll take your answer as a 'yes'! (开玩笑!) And I think your new photo is lovely and that Mona Lisa is no match for you!
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 13: Wang Meets the Big Boss
July 17, 2009 at 8:29 AMHmm... it needed a bit more work really, but I couldn't resist posting it. Pardon the flaws!