User Comments - pretzellogic

Posted on: 郑和七下西洋

actually, there are just 6.8 billion Kenyans running around the planet.

Posted on: Leaky Pipes and Faucets

I agree with you on the technical details, but i'm not really relying on Cpod to be the plumbing expert. It's great that they gave us the dialogue, and leave it to people with some more plumbing, engineering, construction backgrounds to pick up the slack.

In fact, I wish they would have gone further on the lesson, like explaining what the plumber was going to do to remove the valve, so we could have Chinese dialogue like, "get an hacksaw and saw it off, then solder a new valve on with an acetylene torch", regardless if its overkill or flat out wrong.

Posted on: Slippery Ground

thanks changye, that makes more sense.

Posted on: Slippery Ground

you learn something new everyday. I knew it likely meant slipperly floor, but didn't know what the dì was for. I thought it just meant map.

Posted on: The Black Spectrum of Meaning

well, upon further reflection, I probably told you wrong. Not sure if you are using "black skinned people" as just another way to say "black people". But I have heard black people referred to as "hēirén". I don't know that Chinese bother with adding the part about the "skin".

Posted on: Return to the Hometown

on that first point, misunderstandings happen. I'm not clear on why cultural differences as the basis for misunderstanding are any more/less severe than misunderstandings between friends of the same backgrounds/cultures, or enemies of the same background/culture/family etc.

Posted on: The Black Spectrum of Meaning

I think some Chinese say "hei1ren2" "bai2ren2". I don't know if Chinese ever refer to brown-skinned people.

Posted on: Return to the Hometown

hmmm... was he Chinese? Now that I think about it, how did "the something" turn out?

Posted on: An Invitation to the God of Wealth

I wonder that there aren't other gods of wealth out there. Maybe Navaho or something. I won't Google or Bing though.

Posted on: An Invitation to the God of Wealth

tusconmichael, thanks for that. But now I wonder why Copia isn't the roman goddess of wealth.