User Comments - Joachim
Joachim
Posted on: Dropping and Losing 丢, 弄丢，丢掉
April 6, 2009 at 7:38 PM
The Three Sages: Pete's in the middle, alright. Connie left, Jenny right??
Posted on: How Many Zeroes?
April 5, 2009 at 10:27 AMchangye: Sorry if this appears to be nitty, but 不可说不可说转 is appr. 70 magnitudes smaller than 古戈爾普勒克斯 as the exponent of the former amounts to appr. 10 to the 30th power. :-)
Posted on: How Many Zeroes?
April 3, 2009 at 8:37 PMhouban:
googol (10100) and googleplex (10 to the 10100 power) are explained in this wikipedia article in Chinese:
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E6%88%88%E7%88%BE%E6%99%AE%E5%8B%92%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF
Googleplex is 古戈爾普勒克斯 googol is 古戈爾.
Posted on: Can You Use Chopsticks?
March 31, 2009 at 8:59 PMeupnea63366:
The approach with two hands is quite interesting. If I'll ever seriously start doing Chinese calligraphy, I should consider this. Although, I have a hunch that I might start writing not in parallel but symmetric, i.e. the right hand writing flipped over.
Does anyone else know Martin Gardner's book "The new ambidextrous universe"? First written in 1967 to show the symmetry of the universe and the corrected 20 years later as evidence was found that the univers is not - after all - symmetric in everything.
Is handedness, chirality etc. of importance or significance in Chinese in other respects?
Btw: I am not amused if handedness is assumed to be a deficiency - even if it is a genetic trait or due to prenatal testosterone exposure or something. GRR!
Posted on: Can You Use Chopsticks?
March 27, 2009 at 1:45 PM@matt_c: I ALWAYS use my left hand for writing, kuaizi. I get the impression that for proper Chinese calligraphy you're supposed to use your right hand. Does a Chinese child get into trouble when wanting to use the left hand for writing etc.? (It's not like in India where your right hand is used to get things into your body and your left hand for the opposite, is it?)
Posted on: 醋的妙用
March 12, 2009 at 9:54 PMIf you're into the topic you might enjoy the book titled "Vinegars of the World" http://www.springer.com/productFlyer_978-88-470-0865-6.pdf?SGWID=0-0-1297-173818106-0
;-)
Posted on: Munich
March 8, 2009 at 12:15 AMphilippab: "Maibaum" is the German word. Some background information can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maypole
Posted on: Munich
March 7, 2009 at 8:23 PMHenning:
Es gibt auch noch andere deutsche Autohersteller als BMW :-)
BMW is not the only German automotive OEM.
Posted on: How Many Zeroes?
April 7, 2009 at 2:35 PMchangye: Here is a visual comparison: 10^37218383881977644441306597687849648128 10^10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 The latter is obviously bigger! :-)