User Comments - sydcarten
sydcarten
Posted on: Chinese Zodiac Birth Year
March 5, 2010 at 12:01 AMI've noticed when you ask a Chinese woman her Chinese zodiac sign she may not be willing to tell you.
It's too much like asking her age.
Posted on: Calling an Ambulance
March 4, 2010 at 9:33 PMI don't understand
Why 你没事吧？
I would have thought it should be 你没事吗？
maybe I'm just unfamiliar with the character 吧 and its usage
Posted on: Let's Just Be Friends
March 4, 2010 at 11:55 AMFinally, the story of my life in a ChinesePod lesson!
Well.... no, not really. But I have been there.
More than once.
Posted on: End of the Year Bonus Surprise
February 5, 2010 at 9:51 PMmaybe it's just an aussie term.
a penalty rate means extra money you get paid for working under certain conditions.
Posted on: End of the Year Bonus Surprise
February 5, 2010 at 9:51 AMthere's no such things as bonuses in my job
but we get generous penalties for working on christmas day and other public holidays
Posted on: 不一样的《阿凡达》
February 2, 2010 at 10:25 PMMy immediate reaction when I saw the movie was that Pandora just HAS to be inspired by the artwork of Roger Dean.
Floating islands, coloured flying dragons, rock formations like curved rib bones...
And a lot of Roger Dean's artwork seems to be itself inspired by Chinese themes.
http://io9.com/5426120/did-prog-rocks-greatest-artist-inspire-avatar-all-signs-point-to-yes/gallery/
Posted on: Hot Pot Chitchat
December 1, 2009 at 9:03 PM@ Calicartel
not Indonesian, I think, and my wife should know.
I've had shabu-shabu in a Japanese restaurant, so I think it's more one of their varieties of hot pot, though I think it's the name of a particular variety, and not the generic term
Posted on: Express Train or High-speed Train?
October 9, 2009 at 1:15 AMHere in New South Wales the interurban rail rolling stock is all fairly old and slow.
It's mainly patronised by unemployed or retired people because they get a significant discount.
Anyone who can afford it goes by plane.
Posted on: Chinese Zodiac Birth Year
March 5, 2010 at 12:06 AMjust wondering
丢人seems to literally mean 'to lose person/a person'
how did this come to be translated in English as lose FACE?
does anyone know?