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bababardwan
Posted on: Walking the Bird
October 18, 2010 at 10:54 AMI recently spent quite some time at a zoo trying to teach the parrots mandarin, alas without any success...dumb birds.
Posted on: Walking the Bird
October 18, 2010 at 8:21 AMso tal, did you venture to give the obvious retort to fire him up..."nah, I'm looking at you ducky" ?
Posted on: Various Speech Acts and 向 (xiang)
October 17, 2010 at 6:13 AMJohn:
"the deep seated psychological reason why each preposition collocates with each verb in a special way"
..oo yes, yes, yes please..that's just what we're after..that would be awesome...now we're getting somewhere....
Posted on: An Introduction to Chengyu
October 17, 2010 at 3:44 AM“与ChinesePod合的好” 有什么意思？
你是说， 有女人在这里不合适吗？
而且， 你为什么不会写这样？
我不太清楚你的意思。。。
Posted on: An Introduction to Chengyu
October 17, 2010 at 3:16 AM还有， 所有的女人都是强的
Posted on: Counting Coins
October 17, 2010 at 1:26 AM罐 [jar or pot]。。a 24 stroke character in a Newbie lesson. Jiayou! ..but actually it's pretty simple when you learn to break them down:
缶 is the radical here and gives the character it's meaning...it means jar and is meant to be a pictographic representation of a jar.
雚 means heron but it is the phonetic here so does not contribute this meaning but rather the guan sound. Breaking down this character is interesting as 隹 is a short-tailed bird, and add in 艹 the grass radical [ I'm not sure if this is meant to refer to the egrets..brush..long filamentous feathers or not] and you have an egret 雈. If you then throw in 吅 representing the noise made by a lot of mouths 口 and you have the closely related heron 雚
Posted on: Can't Get a Taxi
October 17, 2010 at 1:12 AMlol, that's hilarious mate...love it. 噢，现在明白了。。seen the light. A speck of Spock, but alas, no mark [I knew something was missing ], however I'm inspired now to go acquire one...
Posted on: Walking the Bird
October 18, 2010 at 10:55 AMJen, I'd love to meet your friends birds though. That's fabulous.