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Posted on: Buddhism and Taoism
August 6, 2007 at 1:11 AM

OK, you guys caught me. That is me on the right. The guy on the left is a real Taoist priest from Xi'an.

Posted on: The ChinesePod Dictionary
August 3, 2007 at 6:10 AM

henning, I think you mean "ChinesePod." :P

Posted on: #10
August 3, 2007 at 2:52 AM

For those of you that have no idea what Amber is talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnYZKghlX58

Posted on: #10
August 3, 2007 at 1:31 AM

Jenny, Well, now it's going to have to be a lot longer! We can't make it that easy. Come on, our listeners are smart. They don't need extra help. (They just need better luck!)

Posted on: The ChinesePod Dictionary
August 3, 2007 at 1:13 AM

Man2Toe, We're working on further integration, but we figured you'd like using it in the meantime...

Posted on: #10
August 2, 2007 at 5:37 AM

OK, time to announce this week's answer and winner. Apparently this one was pretty hard; Amber didn't get a lot of correct answers. That means a lot of you need to go to this link to find out which movie it was. And the (randomly chosen) person that DID guess it correctly is... Lantian! Good job, Lantian. Contact Amber about claiming your prize.

Posted on: #10
August 1, 2007 at 8:13 AM

Oops. Something you "might confuse with." (I wasn't trying to make some stupid pun; I just can't write.)

Posted on: Free Association
August 1, 2007 at 8:10 AM

maxiewawa, Yes, it's 静安寺 (Jìng'ān Sì). My fourth tone on "Jìng" might not be super clear, but it's there.

Posted on: #10
August 1, 2007 at 7:17 AM

Bazza, I never use this vocab, but I think "gigwatt" is 十亿瓦特. 吉瓦特 sounds like something you watt confuse with 吉娃娃. (In that case, hilarity could ensue!)

Posted on: Free Association
August 1, 2007 at 7:10 AM

kien, We used the language "minimum condition" in the Grammar Guide. I think you could say that's the same as "sufficient condition." As for your final question, that's a bit hard to answer, never having studied logic in Chinese. If you'd like to rephrase it in more natural English, we should be able to help you out.