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henning

Posted on: The ChinesePod Dictionary
August 2, 2007 at 1:51 PM

"Yucca" was already in! As were "palm tree" and "cornea". Impressive, really impressive!

Posted on: The ChinesePod Dictionary
August 2, 2007 at 1:45 PM

And 160,000 is quite a start!

Posted on: The ChinesePod Dictionary
August 2, 2007 at 1:44 PM

And of course for Yucca (a palm tree, that tends to poke out eyes).

Posted on: The ChinesePod Dictionary
August 2, 2007 at 1:43 PM

Yes, but you can add it in yourself (I think the translation was given in the last Saturday Show). The user input is the actual cool part, if you ask me. This is how dict.leo.org got so impressive. Soon you will find vocab like "Klingon", "Vogon", "muggle" or "Stuttgart" in there.

Posted on: The ChinesePod Dictionary
August 2, 2007 at 9:40 AM

A small suggestion: In my electronic dictionary you can enter the Pinyin without the tones ("zunshou" instead of "zun1shou3") - it hands back all alternatives. This really helps when following a podcast (or news broadcast) and quickly entering what you hear without the need to think about tones.

Posted on: The ChinesePod Dictionary
August 2, 2007 at 9:35 AM

Great! The Glossary is back. It does not seem to have the Advanced vocab incorporated, yet - which is crucial as the Advanced lessons do not come with translations and some vocab isn' t in any alternative dictionary.

Posted on: Jaywalking
August 2, 2007 at 7:42 AM

kmk, Bazza, no term for that in German, too. One day in the year of 1997 I crossed a street despite a red light (half asleep) - a group of kindergarteners shouted after me: "Rotgänger - Totgänger"! Rotgänger - Totgänger"!" ("red-waker - death-walker") I liked that a lot.

Posted on: #10
August 2, 2007 at 6:18 AM

Actually I would not count this as SciFi, but rather as 搞笑片。

Posted on: #10
August 2, 2007 at 6:14 AM

Congratulations, Lantian. This way that DVD does not even to pass customs ;)

Posted on: Jaywalking
August 2, 2007 at 6:10 AM

红灯停，绿灯行。。。 Several years ago in Beijing I frequently saw disgruntled middle aged men, standing at intersections, waving around coloured flags. I learned that those were traffic violators. They were allowed to drive on only after they caught the next poor traffic violator. Pass on that baton, one generation of violator to the next... Much less predictable than those serious traffic aunties. What a system.