User Comments - henning
henning
Posted on: Dog Meat and Animal Rights
March 18, 2009 at 5:13 PMJenny,
you mean for food????
Posted on: Dog Meat and Animal Rights
March 18, 2009 at 12:29 PMpaulinurus,
to built up on bababardwan's reply: I think it is always part of the lessons to convey the original Chinese "street view" on topics. Especially on controversial ones.
And you give the most convincing reason:
thanks to the multitude of articles about China reported by the free press, the many tv documentaries, and youtube videos.
The gap between those sources and what you see and hear in China can be freightening at times.
Thankfully, there have already been podcasts on capital punishment, homosexuality, and the one-child policy here. Interestingly, the most controversally discussed lesson turned out to be the rather tame "She's easy".
Posted on: Dog Meat and Animal Rights
March 18, 2009 at 6:50 AMGood lesson from a language learning perspective by the way.
Posted on: Dog Meat and Animal Rights
March 18, 2009 at 6:46 AMI am hoping for the day when growing animal muscle tissue only becomes a reality. On industrial level.
No brains, no regret.
Posted on: About Face! A Multi-faceted Look at 面子
March 15, 2009 at 8:46 PMBill,
although I am far from having seen even a portion of that, I tend to agree. Sometimes it is extremly helpful to get sober and discover all those things that are universal rather than to just focus on differences. The latter easily leads to annoyance and arrogance. I found that I myself am not yet fully immune to this...
I also find it interesting how often you meet the same characters across all countries.
Culture is mostly about packaging. However, if you don't know how to handle that packaging properly, sometimes you can cut yourself severely. "Face" definately can become an issue. When my mother in law visited us in 2005 for 3 months, I once ran into serious problems for an irritated comment which I would have never suspected to have any "face-relation".
Posted on: Zombies!
March 13, 2009 at 8:56 AMchangye,
those zombies on the cover look absolutely like Klingons.
Posted on: Zombies!
March 13, 2009 at 7:20 AMPete, urcto,
thanks! And no, until today I didn't even know there was such a thing as an Asian zombie movie.
Posted on: Zombies!
March 13, 2009 at 6:18 AMOne English related question:
The phrase 太扯了吧 is translated as "That's too far out" - is that equivalent to "That's too far-fetched"?
Posted on: Zombies!
March 13, 2009 at 6:14 AMSo being a Chinese zombie is not contageous?
Are they just as mean as those zombies we are familiar with from documentaries like 28 Days a Later, Resident Evil, or Shaun of the Dead or are they more like cute little creatures?
Posted on: Hong Kong Visa Run
March 24, 2009 at 3:21 PMsam, wchan,
you obviously didn't get pete's irony and thereby totally missed his point. Maybe you invest some time at EnglishPod?
Sam, BTW: Actually I wouldn't care if parts of "my" country (Germany) declared independence. If it is the will of that region's majority, that is fine with me. After all, a country is nothing but an administrative unit.
The optimal size of such a unit however is worth debating. The tendency here is to hand over sovereignty to the EU in oder to gain more impact and lower transaction costs.