User Comments - giannis

Posted on: Second-hand Bicycle

This dialogue gave me flashbacks to my semester in Beijing!  :-)

Posted on: Second-hand Bicycle

Shouldn't "娶不到" be "qǔbudào", not " qǔbudǎo"?  Sorry, I don't mean to be the tone police.

I love:  "喜新厌旧"  One of my favorite expressions!

Posted on: Considering LASIK Eye Surgery

The tone is wrong in the vocabulary for "success rate."  It should be "chénggōnglǜ," not "chēnggōnglǜ."  Right?

Posted on: Considering LASIK Eye Surgery

I would point out that "我的女朋友有淘汰我" isn't standard Mandarin for another reason. Using "有" as the equivalent of "to have" (as in the auxiliary verb, "to have done something") is used by southerners, because it exists in some southern dialects, but it is not technically correct in Mandarin.

Posted on: Personal Ad

I wonder if John's statement about "pang4" being an adjective and "shui4" being a verb may not be a little misleading.  As John knows, Chinese doesn't have strict borders between adjectives and verbs.  In that regard, "pang4" could also mean "to get fat" or "to gain weight."

I enjoyed this lesson.  Keep up the good work!

Posted on: 风水与五行

Some speculate that Mainland China's failure to use fengshui in designing cities contributed to its being so economically behind Hong Kong and Taiwan.  Even now, fengshui is more rigidly applied in Shanghai than in, say, Beijing.