User Comments - xiaophil

Posted on: Dogs and Wealth

My wife named my goldfish 红红, so I guess this method holds true for fish too.

Posted on: Calling an Ambulance

sammy, you just reminded me of a Chinese idiom I learned today, 咬文嚼字 [yǎowénjiáozì]pay excessive attention to wording. Don't get the wrong idea, though. I agree.

Posted on: Is China Scary?

我最近又看了那部电影，我还是喜欢，不过当然有点过时。我也是个星球大战迷，我不想承认，可是它也过时了。对不起，我离题了。

Posted on: Moving In Together

Everyone has a right to his or her opinion, but I for one am slightly (and when I say slightly, I mean slightly) disappointed in the censorship and am a little offended by the suggestion that what was originally written was dishonorable. I lived with my wife before I married her and I am glad I did. Okay, I'll let it go now ;).

Posted on: Is China Scary?

I assume that is because we would have to then define a superdoubleduperpower which ONLY THEN will become confusing ;)

Posted on: Is China Scary?

Very, very interesting read, Tal. Thanks. All seriousness aside, I really liked this comment:

The real question is who will become the first superduperpower.

Posted on: 游孔庙

tarsi

哈哈，我不知道！我自己不能翻译这个俗话，我查了词典，不过找不到。

Posted on: 游孔庙

bergmaaj

希腊语也没有‘哲学’这个词，只有这个‘φιλοσοφία’的词，不过我还是觉得苏格拉底是个哲学家，我的意思是一个人自称什么专业不太重要，最重要是一个人的思想，行为和专业的定义配合，我认为很难把孔子的思想分类，可是他的观念和哲学首要的事有关系。我们可以把儒家学作为一种宗教，但是对我来说，我大部分的时候认为宗教应该包括上帝或者神，各人有各人的想法。

Hey, what was your professor's name?

Oh yeah, I think that saying is right.  Thanks.  Did you already know that saying or do you have a kick-ass place to find Confucius quotes?

Posted on: 游孔庙

我想问一下，孔子曾经说过“Helping others is helping onself”，你们知道中文怎么说？

关于儒家学，我上（美国）大学的时候受一位上海人教授影响，他是个儒家专家。我用了他的关系来中国，所以没有儒家学没有小Phil。

Posted on: Getting Taller (Not Fatter)

brendan

That is interesting!  I will say I have seen mei and bu in textbooks.  Because the government defines what is standard Chinese, both should be right no matter where you go, at least from what I have heard.