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bababardwan

Posted on: Dropping and Losing 丢, 弄丢，丢掉

April 7, 2009 at 12:49 AM

frognotinawell,

Thanks for the tips about the popup translators.I already had chineseperakun but it's good to try some others to see how they compare.I just downloaded Pablopopup for ie and it seems to be working fine.With perakun though you can toggle it on and off which I find very useful as the popup can be annoying at times when you don't need it.I especially find perakun interferes when I'm trying to write hanzi so need to toggle it off.I can't see where you can toggle on and off with pablopopup.Is this possible? Also,do you have a favourite out of these popups.I might try the otherone for google.Is there one for macbooks?

Posted on: How Many Zeroes?

April 6, 2009 at 11:39 PM

Excellent tip calkins! Don't know if I'll ever need it,but you never know.Where did you find them? Are they traditional? Are they widely recognised?

Posted on: Video Series Just Around the Corner!

April 6, 2009 at 9:02 AM

Aussie version of ni hao ma:

knee oi mate

further evolving to:

me ol' mate

Posted on: Video Series Just Around the Corner!

April 6, 2009 at 8:44 AM

"zai-jianna",hehe;I love it.The expression would be awesome.Nia howa mamma mia.

Posted on: Tomb Sweeping Festival -- 清明

April 6, 2009 at 2:57 AM

Pete,

I have a question about the final line of the poem which I couldn't quite follow.It is in relation to the interpretation of 遥.According to mdbg this character represents distant/remote/far/far away which does tie in with what you said about the shepherd boy pointing to the apricot village in the distance.What I was unclear about was that you also seemed to be saying this same character also indicated that the shepherd boy was herding water buffalo.How is this so? Perhaps I have misinterpreted what you were saying or mdbg is not giving all possible.Also the character 牧 is interesting as you pointed out in the breakdown as it has the cow radical,but can still mean shepherd.Why didn't they use a sheep 羊？

Interesting that both 断 and 指 have been in recent lessons.

魂 is a very interesting character.云 as you point out being there mainly for the phonetic in 魂 but also seeming appropriate in terms of adding meaning.I wonder if this was a coincidence or deliberate? But the other thing that interested me about 云 was even though very different in character, its similarity in sound to 雨 which is after all where rain comes from.Surely this must be more than coincidence?

Posted on: Gone Fishing

April 6, 2009 at 1:50 AM

reigau,

Great explanation mate.Thanks,it helps others too.

Posted on: 金字塔销售

April 6, 2009 at 1:45 AM

petercook1,

As a fellow macroPod,let me explain.You know the game.."she loves me,she loves me not,she..etc" ? Well this new micromacroPoddie was ambivalent and this is shown by the exclamation marks at the end [each one representing a flower petal],and thus each one equating to a change of mind;hate chinese pod/hate chinesepod not/hate chinesepod/hate chinesepod not.. etc.So if you count up the exclamation marks you will see that in the end she came to the conclusion that she hates ChinesePod not.Now she can play the extended version "I love ChinesePod,I love ChinesePod lots".Perhaps it was inspired by the idea of a human pyramid,and instead of picking off flower petals,we could pick off the people on the pyramid to help decide.Perhaps B in the lesson could use a similar game to decide if the talent scout really did think she had talent or not.