User Comments - zaoqideniaoer

Posted on: The Rising Cost of Food

Hi Connie ,

But isn't 个 always a measure word ? Can you please give me an example of when it is 4th tone ?

So are you saying that if I say " 五个人”， the 个 is neutral tone , instead of 4th ?

Posted on: The Rising Cost of Food

The first entry in the dialogue has the character 个 , and it's labeled as neutral tone . Why is that ? I thought 个 was 4th tone

Posted on: The Rising Cost of Food

The first entry in the dialogue has the character 个 , and it's labeled as neutral tone . Why is that ? I thought 个 was 4th tone

Posted on: How to Protect the Environment

thank you!

Is that the colloquial/ way of saying it ? Is there also a non-colloquial way to say it ?

Posted on: How to Protect the Environment

@ abelle and calkins Thanks a lot!

Now I wonder if there are any other ways that people say it in mainland China

Posted on: How to Protect the Environment

is 自扶梯 a regional word ? Because I mentioned it to a couple of my Taiwanese friends and they said they've never heard this word before.

Are there any other words in mainland China that mean "escalator"

Posted on: How to Protect the Environment

do you mean that Hong Kongers call escalators 電梯， or elevators/lifts 電梯？ Or did you mean Hong Kongers call both elevators and escalators 電梯 ？

Posted on: Hanukkah

I can't believe how obnoxious you're being.

Mass genocide is very different than soldiers getting killed in the line of duty. Defenseless women, children and other civilians getting gathered up and herded off to death camps and concentration camps , resulting in over 10 million deaths is different than any other event in human history.

You wrote, “millions died in WWII, WWI, and plenty of other events that I don't need to name”. You probably couldn't even think of anything else, so you wrote "plenty of other events that I don't need to name". Good job!

The end of your comment showed that you're not only obnoxious, you're also a drama queen. My reply to your rediculous comment is that Chinesepod should eventually(over a period of time) do lessons on 9/11, the Nanjing Massacre, and other serious events that have occured in recent history.

What migafoshan wrote to you above means that your logic is a hideous mess. I agree with him

Posted on: How to Protect the Environment

The dialogue has the word for "elevator" （电梯）in it. Do Chinese people have a separate word for "escalator" ? Or do they just say 电梯 to mean both escalator and elevator ?

Posted on: Hanukkah

millions of people systematically exterminated = my metric for "really important"