User Comments - bodawei
bodawei
Posted on: The New Intern
June 22, 2012 at 10:23 PMWell, there you are. My subscription has run out and I can still post here. It seems that I can post a reply in either general discussion or a lesson thread. So I am not sure why I was unable to do this on previous occasions.
Posted on: The New Intern
June 22, 2012 at 9:39 PMHi tingyun
'I'm not sure why this restriction exists, as it doesn't stop anyone from posting '
My subscription ran out in January or February but I returned for a month when I went to Australia (up to today's date). My recollection of the period during which I was un-subscribed is that I cannot go to lesson discussions, but I can see non-lesson threads by going directly to the Community page. (Thanks to Zhenlijiang for that tip.) However, I did not get to post anything because I got the message 'to post you need to log-in', and I could not log in. (If I missed something, apologies to those I may be misleading.) I remain puzzled by a number of people [such as yourself] who post while stating that they no longer have a sub - so I guess I must be missing something.
I acknowledge the difference between posting and replying. I am referring to both here, but that is just my recollection - my recollection is that there is no 'reply' link to click, but I may be wrong there. Certainly I never managed to post or reply in the period I was un-subscribed.
I will be able to re-fresh my understanding on this point tomorrow when I am again no longer subscribed.
For what it is worth, I also cannot see much advantage for ChinesePod in preventing people like me posting in response to other posts, assuming we have something useful to say, and behave ourselves. :) I think that responses by poddies still outnumber responses by the ChinesePod team, although it seems that the team have certainly made a greater effort in recent times.
Another matter for me is that I cannot access any of the material I have left on the site by way of posts, photos etc. Nor can I contact any of the other poddies using the individual message function. But I guess that is the business model. Of course I would not pay for a subscription if this is all I wanted to do.
As for this lesson dialogue, as for all dialogues that I recall, it is fictional; it is not necessarily ChinesePod. Jenny does comment in the lesson that there are 'a lot' of interns at ChinesePod at this time of year; she does not say whether any are from Harvard.
Good luck with your studies come September, tingyun - hopefully you find time to visit the site occasionally.
Posted on: Annoying Popups
June 21, 2012 at 10:25 PM弹出广告 tánchū guǎnggào?
The 单 has a 弓 radical - 弹力尼龙 (stretch nylon) 的弹.
Posted on: 高考让我们缺失了什么？
June 21, 2012 at 9:48 PM彼无书
且知勉
头悬梁
锥刺股
(From 三字经)
While 头悬梁, 锥刺股 has become a common enough saying (eg. when staying up late studying hard for exams), and is several hundreds of years old, it is still intriguing to see the idea playing out in the modern era.
Posted on: The New Intern
June 21, 2012 at 9:29 PMBy the way, you are spot on as usual. In the supplementary vocab 待 dāi is listed, meaning 'to stay'.
Posted on: The New Intern
June 21, 2012 at 9:19 PM'not a member here for awhile, just come to chat'
tingyun - a lot of us appreciate your comments very much - glad you do drop in.
However, I am curious; HOW do you drop in to chat when you are 'not a member'? When my subscription ran out I could no longer access the boards to comment. This is an admittedly very naive question from someone who has been around quite a while. :)
Posted on: 高考让我们缺失了什么？
June 21, 2012 at 9:13 AMYes I am aware that there are schools that offer students overseas-style university entrance - particularly the UK exams - in terms of numbers I would have thought they are still a small minority, just my impression. But I don't know the big cities in the east. I had never heard of one doing Australian Grade 12 exams - that is interesting. "As well as gaokao', .. beggars for punishment?
Actually the gaokao and the Australian system are much closer than any other combinations that I am aware of. What I mean is, the Australian system resembles the gaokao in a number of ways - whereas the American system is entirely different.
Posted on: The Tea Scam
June 21, 2012 at 9:07 AMRJ - I don't think anyone has called me a diplomat before, I will have to pick up my game. :)
Actually I have often considered that would be the ultimate job - very cool indeed.
Posted on: The Tea Scam
June 21, 2012 at 9:05 AMWhat are you doing giving them McDonalds!? .. hee hee, just kidding. Sort of. But, when people are obviously hungry and in a bad way, for whatever reason, you can also just point them to a restaurant and say "order what you want and I will pay". Somehow I prefer that to the idea of you buying the food and giving it to them. Leaves them with a bit of choice and respect. Anyway, thanks guolan for your story - good one.
Posted on: The New Intern
June 23, 2012 at 2:13 PMHi Zhen
Thanks as ever for your advice. I have finally hit on my error (only took me a couple of years to understand this.) Previously, when it said you could not comment without logging in, or the Reply link was missing on the page, I have ASSUMED that I could not log in without a subscription. Just now I logged in - and I finally understand what you have been saying. SIGH ... always have been a bit slow.
Actually, tingyun I think mentioned this - he said something about the instruction that you could not post without logging in might have discouraged at least some people from attempting. If that is what his message is, he is so right. I just assumed that if I was not subscribed I could not log in.
Well, let's hope it kept some of the spammers away. ... :)
And I echo Baba's comment - very good to see you here again! Wo ye xiang ni.