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Posted on: Shut up!
January 13, 2010 at 11:02 AM

For discussion's sake, shouldn't it be er bai wu shi? Not er bai wu? Isn't er bai wu 205, or am I failing to count correctly?

Posted on: A Disappointment
January 13, 2010 at 6:10 AM

The "official" start of the need for threaded comments: March 12, 2006. Or maybe the earliest recorded known date for the need for threaded comments...

Posted on: Buying Batteries
January 13, 2010 at 5:59 AM

I guess the use of "dìfang" in the sentence, "you be able to use them in other things" makes sense if I think about translating the sentence as "you'll be able to use them in other places". I think it was confusing at first.

I'm also going to have to have a stronger review of "de" with zhǎobudào, yòngdedào, mǎideqǐ, zhǎodedào, etc.  Confusing as heck.

Posted on: Fire in the Hallway!
January 13, 2010 at 3:34 AM

Fixed indeed.

Good lesson. It would have been helpful to have the word for "smoke detector" in the pdf as well. And for fun, add "pyromaniac" so we can talk about er bai wu firestarters.

Posted on: Calling an Ambulance
January 12, 2010 at 2:31 AM

I'm told that ambulance drivers are not Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), as they would likely be in the US.  They really just drive the car and the injured person to the hospital, where the doctor and staff take care of any necessary medical procedures.  This might explain why taking a taxi is as effective as riding an ambulance.

Posted on: Shut up!
January 12, 2010 at 2:12 AM

I'm interested too. It must be really juicy, since cpod isn't telling it either.

Posted on: Getting Taller (Not Fatter)
January 12, 2010 at 1:46 AM

Ok, i'll bite: what does this have to do with economics, when the economic modeling is pretty bad? I'm sure you've heard about the aphorism about economists and physicists.

Posted on: A Disappointment
January 7, 2010 at 2:52 AM

Here, deep in the bowels of relatively lightly reviewed older lessons, I was interested to see how threaded comments would be implemented in older lessons.  I think that Cpod implemented threaded comments for older lessons about the best way that it could have been, without a significant amount of rework. 

Posted on: Going to the Pharmacy
January 4, 2010 at 9:03 PM

stevemisch, i'm interested on your take on traditional chinese medicine.

Posted on: Audit
December 30, 2009 at 11:28 PM

Hi ji_li,

Thanks for that.  It was really helpful.  I was asking because I am somewhat familiar with US GAAP and  the FASB, and I was hoping to get a quick and dirty view of the differences between Chinese and US GAAP.  But i'm not an accountant, nor am I really at the Cpod Upper intermediate level.  I was casually interested in hearing dialogue along the lines of "credit accounts payable 1 million RMB, debit accounts receivable 500,000 RMB, and debit cost of goods sold 500,000 RMB".

I'll save my questions about the inspector general for later.....