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bill
Posted on: 《清明》杜牧
April 6, 2010 at 3:23 PM我真喜欢唐诗. 起初很难. 几年以后明白了！Explosive in their brevity they fill one's mind with images.
Posted on: Back to Basics: Making People Plural with 们 (men)
April 4, 2010 at 4:29 PM小的时候我们的课开始了: "Good morning children." We responded with, "Good morning Mr./Mrs./Miss surname." In the 3rd grade we were greeted with "Good morning class." Our response was the same. This continued through high school.
Posted on: Back to Basics: Making People Plural with 们 (men)
April 4, 2010 at 4:09 PMActually, we also had "thee" for the familiar form of thou much like "tu" in Spanish and French. This too disappeared from English.
I'm not sure if many of you recall the 1956 film, "Friendly Persuasion." It's about a pacifist Quaker family during the American civil war. The them song began, "Thee I love, more than the meadow so green and still More than the mulberries on the hill More than the buds of a May apple tree, I love thee .." I had never heard the word "Thee" prior to this and found it to be, even as a child, very touching.
Posted on: Western Zodiac
April 4, 2010 at 3:51 AMI'm chiming in late but when I was at UC Berkeley in the early 1960's someone did an analysis of 27,000 student's majors with their predicted major according to their 星座. There was no correlation. 很有意思 ... 我觉得星座是迷信 ... But, hey, different strokes for different folks (-:
Posted on: Talking about Talking in Chinese
March 29, 2010 at 4:06 PM讨论和谈论一样的吗？
Posted on: Travel by Tour Group
March 27, 2010 at 12:00 AM我同意你. 我们喜欢去散步看看. 但是导游在博物馆很有用。
Posted on: Asking for the WiFi password
March 24, 2010 at 4:38 PMWell actually guys wi-fi passwords are not always hexadecimal (base 16) numbers. It depends on the level and kind of security one uses on your particular wi-fi network. I use WPA-PSK (Wi-Fi Protected Access Pre Shared Key) and that takes an 8-63 character pass phrase. This can be plain text and is much easier to remember. WEP does use hexadecimal. WEP is less secure than WPA-PSK by the way.
Posted on: Warcraft in China
March 23, 2010 at 5:22 PMI was wondering about the translation of 联机 as a LAN. Seems to me that 区域网络 is a LAN, and that 联机 is really machine-to-machine which need not involve a LAN.
For example, I have a home network, cat-6 in the walls and two wireless access points one of which is connected to an ADSL service. My home network is not a LAN. It is a sub-network, with a point-to-point connection to a WAN. Right, a tad techie, but that's me.
不过我从来没玩这些电子游戏了.我比较喜欢又读中文又写软件 .. 如果我有空就我打网球.
Posted on: Special Green Hat
March 17, 2010 at 3:50 PM今天是圣帕特里克节. 所以我整天穿着绿色的耐克T-恤.
Posted on: Piano Class
April 15, 2010 at 3:36 PM是的。 贝多芬和肖邦都是钢琴家。但是他们都是著名的作曲家。