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isthatme
Posted on: Revisiting Before and After
August 30, 2010 at 7:37 PMReminds me of calling an old lady a battle axe. Is there such a term in Chinese? So maybe when abelle and her husband are old he can call her lao3 battle axe 锤子.
Posted on: Ordering Pizza
July 30, 2010 at 11:30 PMKind of surprised the measure word for something round or flat (even though pizza's not truly flat) isn't used for pizza. I guess measure words for food are exempt from the ordinary.
Posted on: Yellow Mountain
July 13, 2010 at 12:23 AMI went in the summer of '07. The crowds I didn't really mind (hey, it's China), but those "mystical" clouds held a little too much mystery. It barely got clearer as the day went on.
Guess I'll just have to go again!
Posted on: 人类的起源
June 21, 2010 at 3:38 AM久而久之 science marches on and disproves superstition after superstition. While religion remains static and only changes it's (their) arguments to try and keep up with science. There is a reason The Enlightenment is called The Enlightenment.
Posted on: 谋杀案二
July 22, 2009 at 1:19 AMDui4 gao1ji2 de ke4 wo3de han4yu2 hai2 bu2gou4. Ke3shi4 wo3 xi3huan1 yi (insert measure word) ge tiao3zhan4.
Han4yu2 you3mei2you3 a term for, "Throw the book at 'em"?
谢谢
Tony
Posted on: Lessons and Comment Policy
July 12, 2009 at 6:41 AMWell, there go my posts. This is the last chance for me to say something useless.
Mei3 yong4 de hua4!
Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Tai Chi
June 26, 2009 at 6:33 AMThanks again to mikeinewshot.
RIP MJ.
cham own！ eeeee hee！
Posted on: Delivery Problems
June 16, 2009 at 2:14 AMThanks Zhu Qi and Pete. It's Henan Polytechnic University. Or as the the Chinese like to say: 河南理工大学.
Yes, it will be great to the historical places. Love Chinese history. But I'm also there so I can actually USE Mandarin and learn it better.
Posted on: Delivery Problems
June 16, 2009 at 1:45 AMI'm signed up again with The Pod! Still jobless but I have to do this so I don't go insane from all the free time.
Won't be jobless for long though since I will be teaching English at a university in Henan! Hopefully I can relate to the students since we are around the same level of skill in our respective 2nd language. I also hope that I can do half as good a job as John probably did.
And maybe someday I will actually have a language question to post here. Till then, I'll be Pod'n it up!
Tony
Posted on: It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity
September 20, 2010 at 10:46 PMIn October 2000 I was on a slow train (36 hours, believe it!) from Guanzhou to Kunming. I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt and didn't use the blankets to sleep. Those next to me were a little shocked, as they wore warmer clothes and got under the blankets.
Fast forward to August 2007 in Hangzhou. YIPES! I was dying in shorts and a tank-top, while the locals were just a little uncomfortable in long pants and button-down shirts.
I agree with Bill about Northern California.