User Comments - bweedin
bweedin
Posted on: Visiting the Hospital with a Fever
November 28, 2010 at 11:21 PM"血緣關係的人"呢？
I have to say it in a speech, so I would really like to know this!
Posted on: Second-hand Bicycle
November 27, 2010 at 9:57 PM因為你是泥轟人，所以我相信你。謝謝！
Posted on: Second-hand Bicycle
November 27, 2010 at 1:11 AM請問一下，David／許洲（？）說：”非常tiě的兄弟“
哪個tiě？ 是“鐵”嗎？
Posted on: Second-hand Bicycle
November 23, 2010 at 11:57 PMSome Chinese people thought it was really weird, going on disgusting that I bought second hand clothes.
Anyway, I like the duo of John and Xu Zhou. I look forward to hearing more lessons hosted by them.
Posted on: Farewell Dinner
November 18, 2010 at 9:23 PMLOL true that! Excuse my outdated expression, but I felt the need to try to revive it.
Anyway, since I'm sure you're just dying to know, I asked my foreign friend, "準備好了嗎？" and he said, "I'm 準備. . . " and added an I-N-G. I told a Chinese guy who could also speak English 準備 + I-N-G and the look on his face. . .
Anyway, he was like, "Where did you learn that?"
"What? I just added an 'I-N-G' to 準備“
”That means 'f[ornicat]ing' in 溫州話"
I don't know why I did this, but I later met up with some people who couldn't speak English and I was saying that I knew words in the local dialect and I once again said it, half expecting them not to understand a word of what I was trying to say, and again. . . the looks on their faces.
Posted on: Farewell Dinner
November 18, 2010 at 6:06 AMThe combination of saying a Mandarin word, and adding English grammar to it, sounded like a dirty word in the local dialect.
Did I answer your question? I didn't quite understand it.
Posted on: Farewell Dinner
November 17, 2010 at 9:32 AMI would normally have liked this, but once, I used English grammar with a word in Mandarin, and it turns out it sounded like an extremely dirty word in the local dialect. It left an aversion from me ever doing it again.
Posted on: A Short Haircut
November 16, 2010 at 10:51 PMWhy thank you for accidentally complimenting me. I'm actually a young bald guy, but as frank as Chinese are, they never pointed it out to me. Maybe cuz there's this Chinese belief that if a young guy goes bald, that he's really intelligent? Maybe cuz they were too short to see the top of my head? Maybe being a laowai distracted them from my baldness? I guess I'll never really know.
Out in the styx, I used to get my head shaved, beard shaved, and nose hairs clipped for a cool 10 RMB in 2010 prices ;) I literally never shaved myself while I was in China.
but just a shave with a face wash in Guangzhou, Jiangmen was 30 RMB. As amazing as it was that they managed to never get water up my nose, still yikes!
(my apologies, but I am at the mercy of a computer that can't input Chinese characters!)
Posted on: Utensils in the New Kitchen
November 2, 2010 at 8:42 AMI think the equivalent to 菜刀 in the West is the meat cleaver.
Posted on: Visiting the Hospital with a Fever
November 28, 2010 at 11:26 PMSome dictionaries seem very rigid with its pronunciation, but it almost seems as variable as shuí or shéi for 誰