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Posted on: The Lure of Being Smuggled Abroad
October 20, 2014 at 6:11 PM

Wow, aren't we being a white-knight!

Posted on: The Lure of Being Smuggled Abroad
October 19, 2014 at 7:48 PM

http://www.newstatesman.com/economics/2014/07/sex-work-work-exploding-sex-trafficking-myth

Posted on: The Lure of Being Smuggled Abroad
October 18, 2014 at 8:29 AM

Female hypoagency. The demonization of male sexuality. Paedohysteria. Misandry. The false rape accusation epidemics. Victimeless crimes. The age-of-consent scam. Seventeen year-old "children". The sexual trade-union. Youthism. Children as a mean of extortion. Male disposability.

Posted on: The Lure of Being Smuggled Abroad
October 16, 2014 at 4:20 PM

The myth of sex-trafficking. The rescue industry. Female victimhood. The donation racket.

Posted on: Career Guidance
October 15, 2014 at 9:09 PM

This lesson is invisible to the search function. I had to retrieve it through Google. 

Posted on: Dormitory Drama - Part 4
September 25, 2014 at 7:17 PM

A frequency approach can be very powerful, especially if applied to characters (as opposed to words). Isn't that the strenght of the HSK system (in spite of its stiltedness?). It prevents you from wasting time looking at a character you won't be seeing again for years.

Posted on: MBA
September 21, 2014 at 8:52 AM

I doubt it. The word comes up in an episode of the "Lao Wang" series. Chinese dictionaries make a dog's breakfast of the verb/noun dichotomy. Maybe this kind of phrase deserves some future remarks. How about a QingWen about how to say "regarding", "wrt", "about", "concerning" in mandarin?

Posted on: MBA
September 21, 2014 at 7:00 AM

I'm wondering what the "上" stands for in "人脉上差一点". I guess it means "regarding", "with respect to". But then I would expect some word like "有" to come in between (人脉上有差一点).

Posted on: MBA
September 21, 2014 at 6:55 AM

Same "coincidence" in many other languages (ie French "se serrer la ceinture", German "den Gürtel enger schnallen" etc.).

Posted on: Dormitory Drama - Part 4
September 19, 2014 at 8:49 PM

Haven't programers invented a tool that tags all words in a text beyond a given HSK level?