User Comments - byronmeinerth
byronmeinerth
Posted on: Oil in the Middle East
October 28, 2013, 02:37 PMYou bring up some good points, but I think it's good to not be too aggressive about these issues. I could point out that you refering to Afghanistan as being in the Middle East is ignorant, because it's rarely considered as part of that region, nor has it ever been.
Anyway, no reason to harp on that, because you do bring up some good issues. With that said, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE control more than half of the world's remaining conventional oil. The stereotype holds with them.
Posted on: Chocolate Country
September 16, 2013, 07:41 AMInteresting - a lot of words that make their way back and forth between Mandarin and other languages go through Cantonese, as you mentioned. 的士 (diksi?) is another one that I can think of that sounds similar to taxi, but doesn't make much sense in Mandarin, either by meaning or by the sound. Incidentally, it has the same character as 瑞士.
Posted on: 电商叫板传统百货
December 24, 2012, 12:57 AM¡Otros hispanohablantes aquí en ChinesePod!
Posted on: Legalize It?
December 17, 2012, 07:54 AM我支持大麻的合法化。在东亚、北美、南美、欧洲，酒、烟草都已经合法化了，但是它们也是毒品。播客里说大麻的“依赖性没海洛因、冰毒那么强”，但是我觉得应该说没烟草、酒那么强，因为烟草或者酒在社会里是很容易买到的。
Posted on: Getting Warm
December 14, 2012, 08:42 AM有人发现在10:26DiLu为了知道声调多少重复了装修这个词。别人问我们说英语人怎么说某些词也是这样的。请修改我的错误。
Posted on: Legalize It?
December 14, 2012, 07:49 AM哈哈，《这些都是美国传来的东西》。维拉，谁给你洗脑啊？
Posted on: Bounced!
December 14, 2012, 07:46 AM我想为夜店做保安。请修改我的错误。
Posted on: Interviews: Obama or Romney?
December 12, 2012, 03:47 PMI agree with you on point number 2, but if you had talked with anyone beforehand about number 1, you would have received the answers with a more than passing rate. I'm not saying people knew exactly who would be in place, but they knew the prominent ones.
Posted on: Getting Internet at your Apartment
December 12, 2012, 03:08 PMWow, I've seen you post some other stuff related to technology. I wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
Posted on: Oil in the Middle East
October 28, 2013, 02:39 PMxiaomai5's point here should also be heeded. If we really wanted a lesson on oil-producing countries, it would be better to focus on Russia, the US, and China, in addition to the ones I mentioned before. Those three countries rarely get much focus though, because they're not petro-states.