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bababardwan
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February 21, 2009 at 7:47 AMRe:"Some word associations I've looked at:
期 qi1 [date] is also the qi1 in 星期 xing1 qi1[week]. 过期 guo4qi1 [past + date] = expired"
Thanks for these mate.Great word associations.Keep posting any others you come across.I find them really helpful.:)
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February 21, 2009 at 7:42 AMThanks mate for indulging me and explaining that.谢谢
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February 21, 2009 at 7:09 AMThe characters in 炒鱿鱼 to fry squid [to fire ] are interesting here:
炒 chao..to fry,has the fire radical 火 huo3 on it's left，and although its not listed as a radical,it looks like 少 on it's right.Is this a phonetic as shao and chao are similar? I prefer to think of it as it's meaning little.As you do fry over a little fire [small compared to bushfires that's for sure]
鱿鱼。。meaning squid,can be broken down into..
鱿 you2 meaning cuttlefish,has the fish radical 鱼 on the left;and..
鱼 ..fish
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February 21, 2009 at 6:25 AMThanks.Actually I did realise that it was a psychological experiment
and the monkeys in the avatar aren't snow monkeys [though both being
macaques they are related].Perhaps it was the amount of white in the
avatar that
made me think of the snow monkeys even though I realised they
weren't.
Also,I have long wanted to see the snow monkeys.I guess this is
sounding like a
loosening of associations;a sign of madness.Yikes.
What I really would like to know though mate,is how you manage
to have a
virtual private network with CPod and how you got things to work
while there was the shutdown last night.Does this mean you're a CPod
employee? Or were you referring to
your own vpn with your own work
in the US unrelated to CPod.
I think you mean the latter right?
This editing box has gone crazy and is cutting off stuff.How to fix?
I've had to space things out to try
and stop half of it being cut off.
This is not helping my plea of sanity.hehe
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February 21, 2009 at 1:57 AMDoes wo3 yao4 ban4 work in Chinese for I'll have half?
Do you perhaps have to be more specific and say something like
gei3 wo3 ban4 ge5 bei1 pi2jiu3?
I loved your motto:
牛奶不耐
..particularly because it had a nice ring to it with the nai going from 3rd tone to the emphatic fourth tone.Good way to remember nai4 now too.Thanks mate :)
wo3..I.. ;yao4...want; ban4..half
gei3..give; wo3..me.; ban4;;half... ge5..measure word; bei1..glass; pi2jiu3;...beer
牛奶...niu2 nai3...cow's milk
不...bu4...not
耐...nai4...able to be tolerated
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February 21, 2009 at 1:31 AMFor some reason your avatar [great avatar btw with the fake parent] reminded me of Japanese snow monkeys [perhaps because they huddle in the cold]:
and then kitakata definitely sounded Japanese,and indeep a map search shows it is about 200km directly north of Tokyo.Have you ever seen the Japanese snow monkeys? I would dearly love to go and see them in the wild,bathing in the hot springs.I believe they can be seen around Nagano.Is that the main place for seeing them?
Your comment "I'll have a calf" was very funny and reminded me of Jacko from the old TV series who would never pay for a round of drinks,but if someone was shouting would always say "I'll 'ave 'alf".I see you're now in the UK,so I'm thinking maybe you were having a pun on that old line from love thy neighbour.Good one.
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February 21, 2009 at 12:50 AMRJ,
Yeah,I know all about woop woop and been there too [and risked getting stuck there in 40 degree heat in a bomby car that was bottoming out on the dirt road] but never felt quite so much like i'm in Woop Woop as last night when I couldn't get on CPod and a fear struck me: What if it's not just some temporary technical glitch and the site has been shut down due to censorship laws.What then? How would we all ever get in touch again and continue our CPod studies? Is there a backup plan for this unthinkable remote [hopefully very remote] possibility? I don't want to be ganbei'ing with my beer cow alone and trying to emulate Lǐ Bái,writing poems about it.
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February 20, 2009 at 11:16 PMConfucius say,house without toilet is uncanny
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February 21, 2009 at 8:01 AMI knew a couple [friends of a friend...?朋友的朋友。。。can you put it that way in Chinese??] who were having trouble conceiving.The husband didn't believe in feng shui at all,but the wife was right into it and ,at great expense,hired a feng shui master to come to their home from interstate.He made all sorts of suggestions like moving doors,etc.To top it off,it was the middle of a really hot summer and he suggested that they both move out of the main bedroom which was the only one airconditioned in the house.The wife wanted all recommendations followed to the letter,and the husband was the one who had to carry them out.He was not happy at all which only served to increase the mirth of his mates further.
Interesting about the lingbi stones Matt,and thanks for the pic which looks really cool.