User Comments - wotingyu
wotingyu
Posted on: Snoring Again
March 31, 2011 at 6:18 AM父母是孩子最好的老师，对孩子的影响很大。 A child's parents are their best teachers. They have a big impact on their child. 1 (A child's parents are their best teachers. They have a big impact on their child.)
In this example from the expansion, "yingxiang" does not have a negative connotation. It seems neither negative nor positive. Is this a pretty rare case or does the word vary frequently from having a negative connotation to a neutral one (and depend on context)?
Posted on: Cold Cucumbers in Sauce
March 25, 2011 at 2:57 AMCucumbers with Chinese characteristics
Posted on: Cold Cucumbers in Sauce
March 25, 2011 at 2:47 AM怎么办？
凉拌
问一下：中国人觉得这个笑话幽默还是好冷？
I guess the word "cold" is in the joke's punchline itself so that probably says it all.
Posted on: Car Crash
March 22, 2011 at 8:31 AMI think siliao can have its efficiences if parties are quick to agree as they are in this dialogue. However, too often the prolonged battle for face undermines the system. Additionally, I find the tendency of people leaving their damaged vehicles in the middle of traffic in order to leave the scene unaltered rather frustrating. My friends and I were once met by this situation outside a small farm town on a hiking trip in Western Zhejiang, rendering the road impassable. The keys were still in the loaf-of-bread shaped van's ignition so we put it in neutral and pushed it to the side then kept driving. Otherwise those people would just keep arguing for hours and ignoring traffic.
I had to do a siliao once when the heater (still in box) I was carrying on my scooter lightly brushed a different loaf-of-bread shaped van in Hangzhou. There was no damage (I was traveling extremely slowly and it was a cardboard box that made contact), but he was not pleased so I gave him 50 kuai and moved on.
Posted on: Using a Cell Phone in China
March 20, 2011 at 2:31 PMDidn't listen, but here are some heady tips if they weren't given:
If you enable international calling on your china mobile phone, dial 12593 before the country code and number and the rate will be cheaper.
If you are hopping over the border to Hong Kong text BLHKRTC to China Mobile (10086) before you go. They will charge you 2.9 kuai and you can use it normally. Higher texting and outgoing call rates apply (I don't know exactly what they are, but I'm assuming not too much) and all incoming calls are free. When you return remember to text QXHKRTC and they will stop charging you the 2.9 kuai daily fee.
Posted on: Hide and Seek
March 17, 2011 at 3:29 AMIn my short fiction class in high school we tried this experiment where we would all pick numbers randomly and then we would write a short story in am email chain according to the order (IE Ben picks 1 so he starts the story, Lisa picks 2 so she will continue the story from what Ben has written, and so on...each person maybe contributing a few paragraphs).
Anyway, this girl Ricki was sick and absent the day the numbers were determined . So my teacher said to everyone, very seriously, "Ricki don't lose that number. It's the only one you've got. You might use it if you feel better." I started laughing and everyone else was pretty weirded out.
Posted on: Hide and Seek
March 16, 2011 at 6:16 AM在健身房的洗手间也可以用这个:
你在这里别偷看啊
Don't know how to say locker room.
Posted on: Hide and Seek
March 16, 2011 at 6:07 AMMe too dude. I had my "stamp collection cataloging" and "bonsai tree pruning" contingency plans firmly in place, but was thoroughly embarrassed after making it through customs in Beijing and being confronted by a friendly game of hide-and-seek in the arrivals hall.
BTW, Rikki don't lose that number?
Posted on: Hide and Seek
March 16, 2011 at 5:57 AMYou can always tell a Milford Man
Posted on: Product Localization
April 7, 2011 at 7:22 AMReese's are brilliant. I went to Hershey, PA and Hershey Park multiple times in my youth. We were able to convince our one friend that there were strawberry cows to produce the strawberry milk so he would always have his eyes peeled against the glass in the car or bus.
Anyway, from Hong Kong you should take the ferry to Shekou, Shenzhen. Then take a taxi, metro (probably 2 stops) or bus a little bit north/east to the Peninsula apartment complex. There is an import store there at the foot of the apartment complex entrance with reese's pieces (and a lot of other godly things), but I can't recall if they had cups.