User Comments - Joachim
Joachim
Posted on: Traveling and Chopsticks
September 22, 2007 at 9:54 AMDo Chinese native speakers regards Chinese to be a very poetic language and use in such a way? I mean, with all those homophones there are lots of opportunities for word play, tongue in cheek allusions etc. And I have noticed that street names quite often sound poetic or even kitschy in another language, e.g. Rainbow Rd. Is Chinese a poetic language to you? Or romantic (like French), melodious (Italian), pig talk [German ;-)], ...
Posted on: Yang Jie's Diary: Everyone Is Dating
September 18, 2007 at 9:25 PMIs it just me or my computer or is it the topic of a teenage girl's diary that has Ken sound really bored in this lesson? Ken: 你觉得这样太无聊了吗? Btw: What's the problem with people liking books?? ;-)
Posted on: Abducted by Aliens
August 19, 2007 at 5:11 PMI have just received communication from Mars pledging us to refrain from invading the planet. So, it all depends on your point of view whom to describe as an alien and of abducting etc. Btw: How about a lesson about global warming and the surprisingly quickly disapperaing glaciers in the himalayan mountains?
Posted on: To Bow or Not to Bow
August 17, 2007 at 6:52 PMgoulniky: Your observation seems to be correct in quite a number of cases. I remember having read something like this in "Teach Yourself Beginner's Chinese Script" some time ago. Unfortunately, it's not true for all cases ...
Posted on: Sudoku
July 15, 2007 at 5:30 PMHenning: "... the generalization [of Sudoku] to larger grids is known to be NP-complete." [When using backtracking as a solution strategy.] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku#Mathematics_of_Sudoku; http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku#_note-3) @all: I was actually quite surprised that Sudoku was unknown in Shanghai - apart from the Shanghai Daily - but almost omnipresent in Taiwan in 2005.
Posted on: Saying Sorry
July 1, 2007 at 4:58 PMHow about a transcription of example sentences, vocab, a resurrection of Cpod videos?
Posted on: ChinesePod on the iPhone
July 1, 2007 at 4:58 PMHow about a transcription of example sentences, vocab, a resurrection of Cpod videos?
Posted on: Please Speak Chinese
June 24, 2007 at 12:17 PMDoes wearing a t-shirt like mine help? ;-)
Posted on: Introducing the Fix
June 20, 2007 at 9:26 PM我很喜欢了！
Posted on: Treating and Foreigners on TV
October 5, 2007 at 10:11 PMlunetta: I think that Michel Foucault dealt with this in The Order of Things (Les mots et les choses). This thinking in analogies was part of medieval modes of thought in Europe. It is still somehow part of our culture in sayings like "fight fire with fire". Even the latest Mathematical Intelligencer had an article in that direction by comparing "Poetic Metaphor and Mathematical Demonstration". It looks like the human mind very much likes to use analogies and quickly jumps to conclusions based on these.