User Comments - bababardwan

Posted on: Manly Men and Womanly Women

I wasn't sure if it was the xiao [if that's being seen as condescending, belittling] in xiaojie or the xian in xiansheng [ I guess you could extrapolate this to...what if a girl is the firstborn in a family...why does some guy still get xian sheng?] or if all 3 [can't spot anything in tai tai that might offend, but I'd be interested to have it pointed out].

Supplementary to this, I wonder how many laowai would find them sexist, and more importantly, how many Chinese would find them sexist.

Posted on: Manly Men and Womanly Women

sure, is 男子汉 negative?

Posted on: Manly Men and Womanly Women

Sure, but just to clarify, there isn't anything negative about 女强人 is there? It makes perfect sense to me that you can be successful in your career and still 温柔...in other words the fact that you needed to add that makes me wonder if 女强人 almost implies that you're not likely to be 温柔 ?

Posted on: Manly Men and Womanly Women

thanks Jenny. Sounds like they're both much more to do with male chauvinism than necessarily macho. You can be a wimp and still be a male chauvinist.

Posted on: I don't smoke

lol...very brave....unless of course you don't follow through with the details and keep it as your private joke, but somehow I can't see you refraining.

Posted on: A Wasteful Husband

first of all we need to analyse what this expression really means in English before we can even contemplate trying to translate it to putonghua so lets leave that till much later. We have a lot of factors to consider here. But first let me clarify. You did really want to know about analysis paralysis and not paralysis of analysis, right? I mean some would argue it's one and the same thing, but I think there are some very subtle but not totally insignificant differences.

Posted on: I don't smoke

haha, I knew you'd say that first bit.

haha, you ignored John's key bit of advice:

"remember to ask your friends to try it first, then tell them specifically what kind of special liquor it is"

Posted on: I don't smoke

"or anything not "little house on the prairie" "

..lol, I like that. I'm having visions of a Michael Landon style bodawei. I can clearly see it. Just need the right duds and suspenders.

ps I'm definitely up for one shot of baijiu..gotta try it once, but once I've satisfied my curiosity, that'll be it for me I'm sure.

Posted on: I don't smoke

"Sorry I brought it up"

the topic or the smoke into that temple called your body?

"Wont happen again"

the topic or the smoking? the latter I hope.

thanks RJ for the lowdown on the electric cigarettes

"if you look closely"

as I suspected. Yeah, I heard about the vapour. That's really interesting about the flights.

"I am just concerned about the lack quality oversight"

..shenme yisi?

"I can pull out my dian zi yan. Smoke this. "

hehe, yeah, very good. This could be the stuff of a sequel to the recent baijiu lesson and the excuses. You could be the cool guy at the end who whips it out to everyones amazement...ah?

Posted on: A Wasteful Husband

hmm, that's strange. Were you trying to reply to me, or was your last post for someone else? The newsletter comment makes me think it was for someone else, Jenny perhaps? It's strange because I haven't commented above you, so I can't figure out how you could do a "in reply to bababardwan".