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Posted on: Detective Li 2： The Mysterious Text Message
June 10, 2011 at 1:49 PMHey Baba, good work - you and xiaoluoyu finally did it! Love youse all!
Posted on: Detective Li 2： The Mysterious Text Message
June 10, 2011 at 1:47 PMI missed all the fun - good on you for the 两点。Love this play and reminds me of a friend here who likes to ask Chinese people, so are you 三点又族? They puzzle over this thinking they have forgotten one of the 少数民族, then he says 汉族．
Posted on: Detective Li 2： The Mysterious Text Message
June 10, 2011 at 1:37 PMBaba
Hmm .. are you getting that out of an online dictionary? It is only six strokes - the 左耳旁 is drawn with just two strokes, the 日子旁 with four strokes. A character dictionary like Changye used to go on about provides the information on strokes as well as other cool stuff. I use 笔画笔顺部首多音多义字典since a friend bought it for me to feed my addiction to characters.
Posted on: Ballet
June 9, 2011 at 2:59 PMMy guess is not, unless Irish dancing involves only one kind of dance. :)
You would probably just say 艾尔兰跳舞.
Posted on: I don't smoke
June 9, 2011 at 2:53 PMHey hephoto
If you look up the thread a bit this is raised and John replies in good spirit - let's not make too much of it? Presumably we are not here to learn English so we can all move on. If it was an EnglishPod lesson it may deserve some discussion.
Posted on: Detective Li 2： The Mysterious Text Message
June 9, 2011 at 2:37 PMI was hoping that the names for each of these two hour periods could provide a solution but I couldn't see anything promising there. If the day starts at 11 pm; we have 6 strokes in 阳 it could be 5 am?
Posted on: Detective Li 2： The Mysterious Text Message
June 9, 2011 at 2:28 PMYes, I looked at the 宋朝 as well, particularly because 朝 is in the code, but was (too easily?) dissuaded by the years,that is pretty clever. :)
Posted on: Ballet
June 9, 2011 at 8:40 AMLike Baba says it is an interesting cultural difference - in China there is a high value placed on learned performance. I have had a number of singing and dancing performances in my classes & there seems to be no shortage of offers to perform. Wouldn't catch me dead doing some of these things my students do.
Somewhat related perhaps: there is little engagement with the kind of music that most young Westerners (or old Westerners) would dance to. A very small proportion of Chinese people get into it. And a similar small proportion of foreigners get into Chinese music.
Posted on: Detective Li 2： The Mysterious Text Message
June 9, 2011 at 8:24 AMA riddle indeed. We know it does not involve 区 and does involve (but not only) 阳。So it may also involve 朝，or even 五木. Maybe 5:20 am (五 and the number of strokes in 5x木), but what does 阳 add, unless just the notion of sunrise, 日出. 朝 (morning) and 朝阳 - looking to the sunrise. Or 五木 coming before 朝阳 - 25 minutes before dawn.
I feel that we have been there before; is that like believing what you have already seen? :)
Posted on: I don't smoke
June 10, 2011 at 2:08 PMHi Zhenlijiang
I do not know any Chinese women who smoke, let alone hand out cigarettes. It is even getting less of a thing among men (I have made these comments before elsewhere.) But that is not to say that you don't see smokers - they are pretty much everywhere, both men and women.
Cigarettes are the biggest manufacturing industry in this province - it is almost patriotic to smoke here, hugely important to the economy. But it's under fire. Some of my students from tobacco towns are outspoken about the industry - it is apparently dirty/polluting (well before anyone lights up.) Everyone knows the health hazards and long detailed anti-smoking ads run on Yunnan TV. Where most ads are about 10 seconds these run for at least 30 seconds. :)