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Posted on: Registering for a Dating Website
January 28, 2011 at 9:35 AM

0:21 非常有趣的一个话题。(yǒuqù - to be interesting / huàtí - topic)

11:11 反应 (fǎnyìng - response)

Posted on: How to Address Someone
January 27, 2011 at 3:52 AM

Could the title just be 称呼人 for 'Addressing People'?

Posted on: Turn in Your Homework
January 26, 2011 at 8:56 PM

That second sentence doesn't seem right to me at all. Who is the subject - I'll assume its 'I - wǒ'. "Tomorrow I am arriving your mother at school" seems to be what this sentence is trying to say. I might be wrong, but I don't think the meaning of 来 allows it to appear in a 把 sentence, because 来 doesn't take a direct object.

Posted on: Turn in Your Homework
January 26, 2011 at 11:51 AM

Another one. "Mark a test".

Posted on: Turn in Your Homework
January 26, 2011 at 8:05 AM

Weird. I've only seen this used for handing over something you should never have had. For example, turn in a gun, turn in drugs. Both this and turning in a criminal carry a negative connotation. Which is why turning in homework sounds very strange to me. "Take out your homework. Now, without making any sudden movements, ...".

Do you also turn in a form? A (work) report?

Posted on: Turn in Your Homework
January 26, 2011 at 2:44 AM

"Turn" it in? Has it committed a crime?

Posted on: Good Morning!
January 25, 2011 at 4:13 PM

Where do you want to insert it? If it is in these conversations, you can type for example yi3jing3 then hit 'convert to tone marks', and you will get yǐjǐng.

If you are talking about Word, on the 'Insert' tab choose 'Symbol'. They are under the 'Latin Extended-A' Set. If you want you can assign a keystroke to each symbol.

There is no code for the symbol itself, but for each letter with the symbol above it. The unicodes for these letters are:

ă - 0101

ĕ - 0115

ĭ - 012D

ŏ - 014F

ŭ - 016D

ǚ - 01DA

Ă - 0102

Ĕ - 0114

In Word, you can type the Unicode, then without typing a space or anything else, hit Alt-X.

Posted on: Actually
January 25, 2011 at 8:03 AM

Thanks for your detailed answer. It think it serves me best to think of 其实 as a conjunction, only with a few exceptions. Tell me, can 其实 ever appear after the subject? eg. 我其实....

Posted on: What size?
January 25, 2011 at 7:43 AM

The translation is there for me.

Posted on: Attitudes toward Religion
January 24, 2011 at 8:01 AM

I've tried with no success to determine who this message was directed at. It looks to me like you are the only " 'em " referred to in your first sentence.