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baba,

The spam certainly came from someone in or connected to CPod - that is beyond question.

Furthermore, I'm convinced that it was done by an American male (sounds overly specific, I know).

As to which American male, that is guesswork, but as John B was doing all the work in getting me to vanish, I think he is the best bet. Especially considering his computing background. And if I got the wrong one, who cares - one in, all in.

The only other American I've exchanged emails with in the last year is RJ, and I know its not him.

What really annoys me about your message, is that you acknowledge that Tal's accusation is most unlikely, yet you preach only to me. After all, the message is the same to both of us, isn't it - don't make unsubstantiated accusations/assumptions. Do you really think adding 'maybe' lessens the accusation? Is that how one gets off being hit with slander - 'Hey mate, I've heard that maybe you killed a man last week'.

go_manly,

What I'm about to say, I say with the best of intention, and wish no-one any illwill. Reading this thread, 2 things strike me as improbable. Firstly I think it is very unlikely that you have been involved in the theft of personal information from anyone's computer [ though this is just from the viewpoint of an outsider who is not in possession of the facts, and I guess also knowing you on the boards this is not something I would see you doing]. Having said that, I think tal only used the word "maybe", which to me is not an accusation but more of a suspicious probe. I guess if you're going to deliberately pass on spam then it is only natural that would arouse such a suspicion....that it contained spyware. Also, despite the animosity between you and tal, I really can't see him passing on spam. Secondly, johnb works for CPod. Really, who is going to believe a professional working for CPod would engage in such unprofessional behaviour? That is extremely implausible. I think it is very unfortunate if you've been sent spam mate, I know that is annoying etc, but do you see the position you put yourself in when you make wild stabs at where it has come from and then engage in sending it yourself? I hope that we can all let sleeping dogs lie and just move on. I wish you well both in your new job [ they say a change is as good as a holiday] and in your Chinese studies. Take care, baba :)

btw that link to your 32 transcripts is working, so you're a good sport still sharing them

Firstly, all that spam was sent to ME first, within a day of being 'disconnected' from CPod. I didn't know who was responsible, so I 'redistributed' it to the most likely suspects. My number one suspect was (and still is) John B, but what the hell, you deserved it as well.

Regarding your 2nd accusation, WTF. How the hell would I do that??? Clearly you ARE playing a game, despite your assurances, in making such a ridiculous accusation. But I'm glad you have made such a libelous accusation in writing. I will now consider my options, so perhaps you should ask CPod to remove your provokation.

The only personal information I have on you is your name. And if my knowing your name is the only reason you think I must have accessed your computer, maybe you should think about what personal details you have attached to your email profile. I know your name only because you sent me emails. Please tell me that there is more to your suspicion than me knowing your name.

Oh so Bob wants to share his toys again now, that's nice. Maybe he's making some progress after all. I wonder if this means he'll be giving up on BS like arranging for all manner of email spam to be sent to a person who he irrationally has some kind of issue with? Maybe even being involved in the theft of personal information from that person's computer? Something tells me he'll keep on playing his "game" however. But I won't.

ah, Hi Bob, had you answered a bit sooner I would have left it. You should, I think, leave your links to dictionaries and transcripts intact. There were after all many "innocents" that truly appreciated them. This is up to you of course.

The link is working. Why so keen to 'tidy up'?

Yes, it might be nice if someone would edit those posts to remove the useless links.

My understanding is that go_manly has taken down many of his transcripts from 4shared.

Thank you Zhen, very kind of you to share this.

Good to hear he is doing well!

Changye's subscription's run out. I don't think he'd mind my sharing that he's not fighting ninjas (what is it about ninjas? I've never in my life heard so much about them as here), but busy and happy studying German.

yes it is, but I guess because shareef seems like a misspelling it kind of highlights the "ee" sound which somehow seems apt under the circumstances and helps drag it out in the song. Maybe it should be shareeeeef [..I don't think this would work if it was shariiiiif ...maybe it would, but not for me, hehe] don't like it [though that's an exaggeration....it might be that after a few drinks though,hehe]

..hmm, funny you should use the word "foxed"....but I'm glad you did use that and not that it's been hounding you. It means we could possibly team up. 我变成到一个吸血鬼在“吸血鬼日记” 【在这里： http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampire_Diaries】。 在那个美国的电视系列，我是达蒙，所以我会迫使你【呵呵以前三藏法师是一点儿一样的，对吧？】

haha - its the real baba this time. Or a vampire named damon

Is it not pronounced "shareef" even when it's spelt "sharif"? By the way your latest avatar has also got me foxed, but I suppose you're gonna tell me it's Christopher Marlowe or some such.

casbo/casbah...sorry..lame I know but you know me..I couldn't resist

..and strictly speaking I guess it's sharif...but I like the way the ee sound is dragged out a bit in shareef

Oh dear, this seems to be one of those occasions when I can't get the joke!

hehe, very good. but aren't you worried about what might happen if shareef don't like it?

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:-)

Oh dear, that's a shame! Maybe he will be back one day. I hope it's not another Aunty68 sort of affair.

Maybe ChinesePod should introduce Asbos. We could call them Casbos...

I'm sure Changye is just off temporarily fighting ninjas :)

Tal thanks for the update, much appreciated! Good to hear Changye is alive and well :-).

He engaged in a spot of anti-social behavior on the boards, made no attempt to apologize, and took it all rather badly. I'd like to say he'll be missed, but then really I think he'll always be with us in spirit. Sometimes more than spirit. And a fetching veil.

As far as I know changye is alive and well.

Was wondering the same thing.

Also where is Changye?

What happened to him?

User go_manly is no longer part of the community here, and it seems unlikely he will restore his link. Never mind, you're welcome to use any of the other transcripts available here. I plan to add more when I have the time.

go_manly,

just to let you know mate, I had brought this to CPod's attention for my posts and I received communication from them yesterday that they're looking into it.I presume it's the same for everyone now that you mention you're having the same problem so hopefully the fix will apply to everyone. I was assured that it seems to be a pagination issue and the posts aren't gone.

I'd like to bump my question for CPod - why isn't there more than one page in our list of posts? I'd like to be able to edit my original comment here.

Thanks for that. I've never come across it before.

The transcript link is now posted in the lesson.

The “所” is optional, so you can also say “大家提的意见”. I feel “大家所提” is more "rhythmical" or “顺口”, and slightly more formal.

I think this Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary definition given on the nciku page for 所 would apply in this case:

3. 助词 [Literary] [直译: (used before a verb to form a noun construction) what, that which, those whom, etc.] noun or pronoun＋所＋verb ⓐ (used with 的 to modify a noun)

我所认识的人 the people I know

大家所提的意见 the opinions various people put forward

Privately I'm quite comfortable, when translating into English in my mind, with replacing this 所 with an "all".

Hi zhenlijiang

Just wondering about your suggestion for #7. What would 所 mean here? As a standalone character, the only meaning I have come across in lessons is as a measure word, and the other meanings I can find on Nciku don't help me to understand it here.

Thanks for that. I probably won't have time to look at it this week though.

The times I have are from Windows Media Player.

Yes, they are in alphabetical order, but that is only because I combined Ricky's separate Word files in that order - naturally the file names appeared in alphabetical order on the CD he gave me. I gave him a CD with about 100 podcasts - apparently he chose the shortest ones to do first, why is why Ken appears in many of these lessons.

Thanks for providing the titles Bob. So they're in alphabetical order. I'll try when I have the time to go look through the rest of your questions (like I said though, I'm having a bit of difficulty with the time code).

I'm finding the time code showing when I play back this dialogue to be a bit screwy, making it hard to find the points you've brought up.
The first four questions I've gone over though:

1) Jenny says this really quickly, she is saying 其实就是.

2) You're right, it should be 那当然吃，和（not 喝）招待在中国是……

3) Right again. That should be 然后你非常的尊重他，所以说你（的）名字是很厉害的，大名。

4) This is 但是咱们中国人……

Just a suggestion Bob--it would be helpful if you posted the link to the lesson with the questions. Sorry if this sounds like grumbling, but it's just that much more trouble, to go search and find the lesson being talked about.

And can you tell us which 32 lessons have been covered here? It's not that I want a list really. And why don't I just go and look through to find out? Well I started to (and I have a feeling that's why Phil's list only goes down to the first 10), but scrolling through such a big document to find all the titles was terribly straining on the eyes, I abandoned that attempt pretty quickly.

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