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henning
Posted on: Welcome to ChinesePod
November 24, 2008 at 8:12 AMgcharestiii,
Definately. And measurably so.
Posted on: Chinese Characters and the History of Sex in China
November 24, 2008 at 5:59 AMActually it would be highly interesting to get an in-depth DA-discussion on the role of phonetic components, their history, and relevance for studying Chinese - the backdrop DA for goulnik's contributions.
Posted on: Chinese Characters and the History of Sex in China
November 23, 2008 at 8:08 PMRegarding the second topic: The new economic realities seem to foster some pragmatic approaches and alliances...Just discovered that one on sina: http://news.sina.com.cn/s/2008-11-23/070816707579.shtml
[I found that reading Chinese news can be highly enlightning once you got past those rather dry messages of the sort "politician xy said in the commitee meeting z that the relationship with country w has always been based on mutual respect and will in future be deepended significantly."]
Posted on: Autumn Outing
November 22, 2008 at 12:41 PMJohn,
posted from the distant Orlando?
Posted on: Argument over Garbage (1)
November 19, 2008 at 2:29 PMAccording to this answer on Baidu there seem to be several theories on the origin of 放我鸽子.
Sidenote: Pigeons might be extremely valuable in the days when the Internet is hampered by diminishing supplies of fossil energies (cf. RFC 1149 and RFC 2549).
Posted on: Argument over Garbage (1)
November 19, 2008 at 8:01 AMThanks Pete! Helpful as always!
("Put me a pigeon..." = "to not show up on a planned date with me". Strange linguistic stuff, indeed!)
Posted on: Argument over Garbage (1)
November 19, 2008 at 7:50 AMSmall question:
What does the following, interesting expression from the expansion mean?
放我鸽子
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 5: Wang Tries to Excel at the Office
November 17, 2008 at 3:17 PMsebire,
everything is as it always has been.
I just survived one of those "near-deadline experiences". After a night of finishing work I still had 4 hours left, uploaded the paper (which was expected to be in DOC). Then the receiving site automatically turned it into a PDF - and bang! Nothing was at its original place. It took me another 3,5 hours to fight down Word. Happy ending, but close, very close...
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 5: Wang Tries to Excel at the Office
November 17, 2008 at 1:46 PMtvan,
I switched this semester (both for work and for our our "Data analysis with MS office" class). Besides some new colors and graphic features (which are admittingly fun) almost everything stayed the same - the only difference being a user interface that got randomly reordered...
Below that: All beloved MS office mistakes made it into the new version. Especially those MS Word errors have a tradition that dates back to Winword 2.0 (footnotes appear on wrong pages, graphics jump into nirvana, multi-column-layouts do not work properly etc. etc.). And the new functionality for managing literature is a joke + a waste of UI space. Guess I have to stick with EndNote for a while for that...
I wonder if there is established vocabulary in English and Chinese for those mistakes?
Posted on: Welcome to ChinesePod
November 24, 2008 at 8:23 AMThat depends on your skill and dedication. But with reasonable effort, 6-12 years.