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Posted on: Kaixin Wang Farm Thieves
October 27, 2009 at 4:12 PM

Tangqian, thanks for that. I've calmed down. 

Posted on: Kaixin Wang Farm Thieves
October 27, 2009 at 1:52 PM

English accent, guys, English, not British! No such thing as a British accent!

There's no such thing as a British accent? Man, you learn something new everyday! Ok, since this also has plenty to do with Farm Thieves (because there's a UK consulate in the middle of the game), what's the difference between Great Britain and the United Kingdom? Is there one?

 

 

Posted on: The Pen and Paper Mystery
October 27, 2009 at 10:14 AM

no vocab tab still

Posted on: Adoption
October 26, 2009 at 10:38 AM

FWIW, Cate in any other context besides "Blanchett" is well beyond my daily usage.  But maybe that's because i'm American? Maybe this is a British thing....

Posted on: Anybody home?
October 26, 2009 at 2:16 AM

so I take it that there won't many Chinese kids going door to door in their apartment building asking neighbors for candy? I do recall halloween passed unnoticed (relatively speaking) in Gansu Province about 4 years ago.

Posted on: Introducing Oneself to the Family
October 25, 2009 at 12:13 PM

thanks sebire!

Posted on: Introducing Oneself to the Family
October 25, 2009 at 9:44 AM

Thanks, changye. so all the uncles on your mother's are called the same thing (the mother's brothers, that is), or if your mother had 11 brothers, you've got a major problem on your hands?

Posted on: Introducing Oneself to the Family
October 25, 2009 at 7:31 AM

so is the naming convention using fu for the second character to mean a man on either side of the family, or is fu for the father's side relatives?

Posted on: Introducing Oneself to the Family
October 24, 2009 at 2:01 PM

FWIW, Rich, you apparently were reciting a mnemonic for memorizing family positions, but it's not clear to me how the mnemonic works in terms of the Chinese names for the family positions.