User Comments - svik

Posted on: Computer Problems and Tech Support

I have a question about this sentence from the expansion:

我真服了你了，800米居然跑了10分钟。

Is this sarcastic, since one could walk 800 meters in 10 minutes?

Posted on: Fire in the Hallway!

Thanks Connie. It makes sense that way.

Posted on: Fire in the Hallway!

I am puzzled about the meaning of this expansion sentence:

老板不太满意这个报告，让我重新写一个

Is the speaker thinking aloud, and says: let me write a new one?  or

is it that 老板让我重新写一个?

In the latter case, we might say, "the boss asked me to write a new one."

Posted on: Calling an Ambulance

toianw,

I think you are hearing correctly. I also hear a second 了。

helencao answered the second part of your question.

Posted on: Shut up!

My understanding of this:

The Chinese convention is that 二百五means 二百五十, just as 三块五 means 三块五毛。

205 would be 二百零五, I think.

If 205 were a room number, it would probably be 二零五。

Posted on: International Women's Day

Replying to myself:

The exercises tab exists only on the first page, not on the second page.

So, a minor problem only.

Posted on: International Women's Day

Hi Cpod

This lesson lacks the exercises.

Posted on: Rhetorical Question Marker 难道

Hi connie,

Does that mean that 疯 is used as a verb in this construction? (i.e. to go crazy).

Can it be used as an adjective in another sentence?

Posted on: New Year's Wishes

damon:

See this for pinyin tone marks:

http://robrohan.com/2007/02/03/typing-proper-pinyin-on-mac/

or,

http://chinesepod.com/community/conversations/post/2475

And,

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/

Posted on: New Year's Wishes

我不能出对话里的人是谁。