User Comments - mikeinewshot

Posted on: Play Area for Kids

Bouncey Castle are popular in England

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bouncy+castle&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=SgqyUtbTN9Sy7AburYCwBw&sqi=2&ved=0CEsQsAQ&biw=1097&bih=524

How about that in Chinese!?

Posted on: Rack Them Up!

He must be lining up the shot from the target ball before he plays the white

Posted on: Designated Driver for Hire

The audio level in the dialogue and expansion sections is much lower than for the lesson itself

Posted on: Designated Driver for Hire

Actually 'replacement driver' seems a good translation

Posted on: Designated Driver for Hire

"designated driver" is an odd choice of translation here. 

If one of the party was designated to be the driver at the outset then ok, but here I they are just calling a "hired driver" (or similar terminology).

Posted on: On a Wok-About

There have been concerns around for a long time that Aluminium causes nasty diseases - you can find it on the internet eg http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9119528/Is-aluminium-really-a-silent-killer.html

Posted on: Chinese Games Part 2: Cards and Dice

Thank you David

Posted on: Dart Match

There is a bad incorrect translation of 这回 in the vocab section.  Instead of 'this turn' it is translated as 'to return'!!

Also I am unclear as to what is meant by the word 环 here.  I live in the home of darts (England!) and I don't know whether it is supposed to mean just hitting a number or whether it applies to the double (or the triple).  Incidentally does anyone know how you would say to hit a double or a triple or indeed what is the Chinese for the bull inner and outer.....?

Posted on: Dart Match

Well, I have learned what I suppose is a new Americanism from this lesson.  "to be tied up" apparently means that the scores are even.  I thought it was something to do with being busy or else what happens when you are kidnapped.

Posted on: No Time for Questionnaires

cynically, this doesnt seem likely recently