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wildyaks
Posted on: Election Candidates
September 7, 2007 at 1:57 AMNow, to have an understanding of Democracy and to have an understanding of the America electoral system are two totally different things! So, what exactly is it that draws blank stares, I wonder? Maybe the fact that they are assumed to be the same thing... And I did not mean that the topic of politics is avoided, people are just not interested in it and as some have said, are not encouraged to be so.
Posted on: Election Candidates
September 6, 2007 at 12:30 PMI was wondering, too... I have not heard people discuss American politics in any critical way. America is just heaven, especially for my friends, who are mostly Non-Han and at times feel a bit "limited" by the Han majority and a culture that defines everything Han as developed and the rest as less so. As for Chinese politics, I generally have the feeling that people are busy making a comfortable life for themselves and can't be bothered with politics. One joins the party purely to help one's career. I have yet to meet a person who has become a party member because of political reason - I am speaking of the young generation here.
Posted on: Calisthenics
September 6, 2007 at 10:59 AM听这节课真要吃巧克力，要吃很多。这很可能是在Cpod最无聊的一节课。但那个照片很不错!
Posted on: #15
September 6, 2007 at 10:35 AMI am going to out myself as a totally non-blogger, txt-er, cyber space freak or whatever. I tried to ignore it. I mused over it. And I am pretty creative! But hey, I just gotta admit that I cannot figure out what LOL stands for. Help me out. I just don't want to lose sleep over it anymore. Comes from living in the wild west away from civilization, I guess...
Posted on: Back to School
September 6, 2007 at 10:35 AMI am going to out myself as a totally non-blogger, txt-er, cyber space freak or whatever. I tried to ignore it. I mused over it. And I am pretty creative! But hey, I just gotta admit that I cannot figure out what LOL stands for. Help me out. I just don't want to lose sleep over it anymore. Comes from living in the wild west away from civilization, I guess...
Posted on: All About 所有 (suǒyǒu) and 都 (dōu)
September 6, 2007 at 4:23 AMAnd one more thing on the use of 会. Am I right that you can say: 我永远不会爱你的。 meaning not so much ability, but as "It's something I cannot imagine to happen"??
Posted on: All About 所有 (suǒyǒu) and 都 (dōu)
September 5, 2007 at 12:13 PMHi Kettle, Your question about that sentence with 会made me think. My intuition told me that there was no problem and that your suggestion “如果你的薪水够高，你要买车吗“ does not sound right again. I can't explain it, but what pleases me, is that obviously after years of just being exposed to the language (and by no means fluent in it) I seem to have picked up a few things subconciously. For example that 会is used for imaginary/hypothetical situations (like in English, I was taught to use second conditional,,.) And maybe we need a qingwen on the use of 要 and 想. I think many of us Westerners overuse 要. Speaking of which, in one of the example sentences Amber or Jenny says: 你和你朋友都来吗？ Nǐ hé nǐ péngyou dōu lái ma？？ I would have said: 你和你朋友都要来吗？我和我朋友都要来。 Why is there no 要 needed, since the sentence has future meaning?
Posted on: Negotiating Price and Payment Terms
September 5, 2007 at 1:17 AMHi coljac, What kind of a language is Telugu? I probably embarrass myself asking... Am really curious. Or is it something to eat??
Posted on: Beauty Pageant for Bloggers
September 4, 2007 at 12:48 PMThis is a guy's lesson it seems. Where are the women commenting? I loved that video of Miss Teen South Carolina. Great stuff! (I shouldn't say that, I guess, being a woman...)
Posted on: All About 所有 (suǒyǒu) and 都 (dōu)
September 7, 2007 at 2:10 AMThanks Amber. That confirms what I have been thinking, but unable to explain.