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Posted on: Instant Noodles
June 23, 2008 at 5:41 AM

Mmm. Dog. Had it a couple of times in Korea, the farm-raised type. It was a bit like venison (deer) with the wide grained fatty-ness of corned beef.

As for the one sound, many meanings discussion: I think I remember reading that there are roughly 400 vocal syllables in Mandarin, without distinguishing tones. With all five tones, that makes 2,000 vocal syllables in total. Given 6500 simplified characters in general useage (in your wordprocessors font list), you can see that repitition is inevitable.

Posted on: Train to Beijing
April 9, 2008 at 6:21 PM

I like the shirt. I would buy it and wear it for a reasonable price, but I can't afford the Premium membership. Also, for the price of the Premium, I'd expect a feature like Premium only Voice/Video live Chat. Grammar, pronunciation guides, and vocabulary lists are all free elsewhere online, and in my IRL (in real life) classes.