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rb1956
Posted on: Broken, Busted, and Smashed
March 5, 2010 at 4:41 AMAn e-friend used 晕死我了 in a chat, and I've had the devil of a time understanding/translating it. From the context, I'm guessing something like "My mind is blown!". Would that be roughly correct?
Posted on: The Black Spectrum of Meaning
February 14, 2010 at 11:42 AMWith all these negative implications, what is it like for people whose family name is 黑？
Posted on: The North Has Central Heating
December 8, 2009 at 10:22 AMOff topic I know, but I'm puzzled by all these uses of RMB in prices. I was under the impression that Renminbi (人民币) was the name of the currency, while the yuan (元）was the unit of the currency (in the same sort of way that the UK currency is Sterling, but the unit is the pound, and nobody talks about paying "Five sterling" for anything).
Of course not every keyboard supports the ¥ symbol, and it's potentially ambiguous with the Japanese yen (in the same way that $ is with so many different countries using the name dollar for their currency), but should I take it that nobody uses it, or CNY (the ISO code for the yuan)?
Posted on: Where are you from?
November 8, 2009 at 11:49 PMInterestingly, in this clip (from Taiwan?) I notice that 澳洲 is used throughout a news report on Australian-born 围棋 player 黑嘉嘉 (Hēi Jiājiā AKA Joanne Missingham). Regional thing?
Posted on: Where are you from?
November 4, 2009 at 10:48 PM@bodawei et al. Thank you for clearing that up.
Posted on: Where are you from?
November 4, 2009 at 8:41 AMI am Australian, and I have come across two ways of writing/saying Australia:
澳大利亚 (Àodàlìyà) which is essentially phonetic, and 澳洲 (Àozhōu) which is shorter and sounds less like a machine-gun. The news-readers on CCTV seem to use the former. Which is more used or more correct?
Posted on: Beards Are for Old Men
April 2, 2010 at 2:17 AMI had a full beard for about 16 years. But it eventually went white before my head hair, and made me look about 100 years old, so I shaved it off. Now I shave my head too, and Chinese colleagues make monk jokes.
Girls seemed to like my beard (they were always stroking it), but some of the more tightly-wrapped managers at companies I worked at didn't care for it.