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Posted on: A Chinese-Style Contradiction
July 30, 2007 at 4:00 PM

I just finished this lesson and I wonder if there is really a contradiction. Perhaps the whole story is just putting us on the wrong foot, because there is bound to be a 'toughest shield in the world' and a 'sharpest spear in the world', the existence of the first doesn't really rule out the other one. Let us paraphrase the story: The 卖东西的人still shouts that he has the sharpest spear in the universe; but now he also sells tofu, and he claims that his tofu is the 'firmest in the world'. Now, if a guy stabs with this spear in the tofu, what happens? :-) Marc in Belgium

Posted on: A Chinese-Style Contradiction
July 30, 2007 at 8:23 AM

poisonotter, As far as I know the spear in Chinese MA is not for throwing purposes either. But I am a bit confused because in 武术 it is called 枪 not 矛and I'm not sure if they are really synonims or denoting different weapons alltogether.

Posted on: Help with Housework
June 19, 2007 at 5:51 PM

Again no comments? Strange....

Posted on: The Man and the Dog
June 19, 2007 at 5:25 PM

Mmm....am I really the first one to comment on this lesson, or has something happened to the comments?

Posted on: My New MP3 Player
May 26, 2007 at 4:03 PM

Diegoma, You have to install support for Asian Languages. You can do this on the Country Settings. (Go to Start|Configuration). Perhaps you will need your original Windows CD to do this.

Posted on: Lili and Zhang Liang 10: The Other Woman
May 21, 2007 at 2:02 PM

Hi guys, I think it is high time you addressed this bug!