User Comments - goulnik
goulnik
Posted on: Cold Will Kill You
October 30, 2007 at 10:10 AM"Cooling slows.. So in that line of thought, cold drinks will slow the metabolism/digestion. " 不一定 ： cold may actually induce the opposite effect, i.e. the body responding by producing more enzymes! I don't know, but metabolic pathways and feedback regulation are quite complex, and sometimes counter-intuitive, ask AZERDocMom
Posted on: Cold Will Kill You
October 30, 2007 at 8:08 AMsure, who would do this today, but then where in the West would be be offered 热水? it's still very cultural, same with food taste, and so much dependent on advertising dollars nowadays, billions of them...
Posted on: Buying a Custom-Built Computer
October 30, 2007 at 5:23 AMnot sure of the difference, but you're right about 线 (xiàn), connecting a cable is 接线 (jiēxiàn)
Posted on: Cold Will Kill You
October 30, 2007 at 5:18 AMSome possible, if boring reasons for grandma's beliefs: - traditionally, the only way it would be safe to drink water would be boiling it. 拉肚子 could easily result from germs in water of uncertain quality, not to mention the difficulty to make ice(cream) - hot drinks increases perspiration, which evaporates and facilitates homeostasis (regulation of body temperature) - cold drinks modify the chemical environment and probably mess up digestive enzymes - it's pretty obvious that hot drinks have a far more thirst-quenching, long-lasting effect than cold drinks - even the US CDC recommends to avoid very cold drinks in cold weather as they can cause stomach cramps! - we all know the impact of carbonated, sweet drinks on the health / weight of kids in the West, particularly in the US Anyway, I agree that warm, plain drinks are way better than cold, sweet drinks, even in summer.
Posted on: Cold Will Kill You
October 30, 2007 at 4:57 AMsome more 感冒-related vocab : 生病 shēngbìng to fall ill 症状 zhèngzhuàng symptom 咳嗽 késou cough 鼻塞 bísè stuffy nose 嗓子疼 sǎngzi téng sore throat 打喷嚏 dǎ pēntì to sneeze 流鼻涕 liú bítì to run at the nose 体温 tǐwēn body temperature 打针 dǎzhēn to give/have an injection 吃药 chīyào to take medicine
Posted on: Buying a Custom-Built Computer
October 29, 2007 at 8:31 PMthere's a tool called WinLexic, a 'GUI to Microsoft Glossaries for Technical Translators and Technical Translation Agencies'. The evaluation version can be used to download Microsoft language glossaries (e.g simplified or traditional Chinese) which are lists of all menu entries, error messages etc. for MS applications - 64,000+ for Office 2003! I will extract the 60 or so most common terms and post them here.
Posted on: Buying a Custom-Built Computer
October 29, 2007 at 4:53 PMmark, you may want to check Microsoft Terminology Translations for starters, it's a spreadsheet you can download with translation of over 10,000 terms in 60 or so languages, including simplified and traditional Chinese. That's rather heavy duty. For daily stuff, I spent a lot of time checking computer books in Shanghai, there are tons teaching Office and other apps, but far too detailed, I figured I'd never have time to list the basic vocab, will only bother when/if I come to China for work. Meanwhile I have some other notes on what foleadu mentioned, will try and upload them
Posted on: New York City
October 29, 2007 at 12:59 PMhenning, 'she' might have been the she-panda who recently took a bite out of a Beijing zoo visitor :-((
Posted on: I'm not Chinese
October 29, 2007 at 11:55 AMKyle, political correcteness 政治正确性 (zhèngzhì zhèngquè xìng) does not exist in China, but stereotyped language 公式化 (gōngshìhuà) and other 老生常谈 (lǎoshēngchángtán) cliché do, right? How do you say 'hackneyed language', 庸俗的 (yōngsú)?
Posted on: 自闭症
October 30, 2007 at 10:58 AMCambridge math prodigy falls in love with unsuspecting Chinese receptionist - 不可思议 (bùkěsīyì) ! but 等一下! Daniel himself says “因为我对法文不感兴趣，所以我从来没有真正用心学过一句法文。” which only reinforces Ken's point about motivation, even if this guy is obviously very visual. You'll find examples of such incredible gifts in the book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" from neurologist Oliver Sacks in some call 'autistic savants'. It's what I believe inspired the movie. As the article says, such cases of Asperger's syndrome are rare (there's an American Nobel prize-winner amonst them), but equally Asperger is at one extreme on the autism spectrum.