User Comments - mikenotinjubei

Posted on: Afraid of Dogs

I can't help it in the debate of traditional versus simplified characters. From the expansion section which character looks more likely to "怕 pà," you ?

  Bugs - chóng

虫 (simp.)

蟲  (trad.) 

  I have no fear of dogs but I do fear being stuck outside with hungry mosquitoes and lots of them like the traditional character for bugs.  Athough the Chinese Character for mosquito is :

mosquito n. 蚊子wénzi for both traditional or simplified  to me it should be :

蚊蚊蚊蚊

蚊蚊蚊蚊蚊蚊蚊子

蚊蚊蚊蚊

Posted on: Pretty Clothes

This is very strange I checked to see if you fixed the bug in the expansion sentence  

  "I think the second sentence in the expansion section for "很" in the text is missing "可爱" for cute"

 It is fixed for about one second and then disappears. Our tech savy people how is this done?

Posted on: Pretty Clothes

Hi QC Dept. of CPOD

   I think the second sentence in the expansion section for "很" in the text is missing "可爱" for cute. The dialogue is correct the text is missing.

Posted on: Chinese Birthdays and Local Hospitals

Hi Amber

  Happy "Dear Amber" Birthday.

What I enjoy most about hospitals in Shanghai is going to the baby hospital. I think there is one a few blocks off of Huaihai Zhong Lu (toward Jing An). On the weekend there is always a big crowd mostly of old people watching from the outside. There are big windows and the nurses give the babies tubbies in these huge glass barrels. If the baby is about 6 months or older they put them in a little flotation device and they just bobble around.

  In general I do not think hospitals are a great place to be anywhere in the world. After all people are sick. In Shanghai my experience (not personal just observation) is the variation in quality seems huge. By the Hilton Hotel in Jing An there is a clinic which looks very old and sick people waiting along the street. Just down the street is the University Hospital which is as modern as anything I have seen in the US.

My only Asian hospital experience was an emergency dental visit in Jubie when I lived in Taiwan. Although it looked a bit dodgy from the front. The dentist was excellent and I paid about $5 US to have a temporary plate re-glued together. Very important as it was  my front tooth.

Posted on: The 是...的 (Shì...de) Pattern

Amber

  With reagard to smuggling things into sports arenas. A few years ago when my baby daughter was president of the senior class, the boys high school hockey team was in the state finals. Although the whole school was warned they could not pass up the chance to continue a tradition that carried them that far. When the team scored the first goal I saw on TV my daughter come down the aisle and throw a huge octopus onto the ice. Where she hid it I have never asked.

 More Qing Wen's - what a great combo the three of you are.

Posted on: The 80/20 Rule

Ok, I get the part that 80/20 is written and pronounced like directions North East as 東北 . But why is it not 二十/八十 ?

  Is this like a street negotiation knock down the price to 10% of its original value.

Posted on: What size?

Hi Jenny

 Its just you seem like a shiny patent leather shoe kind of girl from my days long ago in very strict Catholic Schools and all the girls had to wear them.

  And as you mentioned your mother kept your feet from going out of control. I sense like your feet, you rarely go out of control.

Posted on: What size?

Are those by chance Jenny and Ken's shoes?

Don't knock the crocs. My wife hates them but in Tokyo they are really nice for slipping into when I need to go across the street to the convience store.

btw- in the expansion section is this a dumbing down when "46" matches with "46"?

Posted on: Language Power Struggle

John

  What is the language of the CPOD Factory? Does this sometime happen there as well /

Posted on: Caught in the Act

Amber

  Sorry I lose myself all the time. Not so hard in Tokyo. One of the expansion sentences I guess I would have said

這個句子對不對

  Without being redundant. Is this sentence ok as well?