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bababardwan
Posted on: Unlucky Day
June 24, 2011 at 5:27 AMthere used to be a game [or I guess I should say practical joke....is there a chinese term for that?] here sometimes played outside pubs with one way windows where someone had used superglue to glue a coin to the ground and then sit in the pub watching passers by discover it and try and pick it up, some quite determined.
Posted on: Unlucky Day
June 24, 2011 at 3:41 AMI'm interested in what Chinese consider luck and bad luck and the application of this dǎoméi. A lot of examples of bad luck I wouldn't personally consider bad luck as they are things within our control. eg a gf breaking up may be sad but it isn't really bad luck as it's a relationship issue. Also, what about equivalent expressions to the English ones like "you make your own luck"?
Posted on: Unlucky Day
June 24, 2011 at 3:37 AMhaha, very good, so his ex nvpengyou [zenme shuo?] plays sax. How to say rubbing salt into the wound?
Posted on: Unlucky Day
June 24, 2011 at 3:34 AM"ah, the old baseball to the head during the business negotiations"
..haha...very good. love that. Love saying that sort of thing too ever since hearing how Maxwell Smart always cracked out "the old shenme shenme" for unlikely events as if they were classics. haha. Well said John.
Posted on: Unlucky Day
June 24, 2011 at 3:10 AMtingqilai xingxing [tongtong,kangkang,he maomao de pengyou] ye xihuan da bangqiu. aiyou. zhen xiaogui. xia yi ge shenme shiqing ne?
Posted on: Detective Li 3: The Broken Glass
June 23, 2011 at 2:15 PM我真的不敢当。我只是一个fool在阜，哈哈
Posted on: Detective Li 3: The Broken Glass
June 23, 2011 at 1:52 PMyes, all the time
Posted on: Monthly Data Plan
June 23, 2011 at 1:05 PM"We do this during recording to avoid the popping sounds."
什么意思？、为什么？
Posted on: Detective Li 3: The Broken Glass
June 23, 2011 at 4:58 AMhaiyou keneng Li tan zhang de fàngdàjìng jízhōngle tā de guāngtóu fǎnshèguāng...xiàng jīguāng
Posted on: Unlucky Day
June 24, 2011 at 5:32 AMthanks mate...the first very straightforward, and the second is a goodun'...sounds familiar too...probably more common in the north too I guess. Though while I think it is roughly equivalent, I must say I love the snow so for me it is not going to have the same feeling behind it. Probably more effective amongst rural northerners.
Great to see you around again :)