User Comments - hiewhongliang
hiewhongliang
Posted on: Addressing Women
July 14, 2012 at 12:58 PMAnd not to mention pear-plexing...
Posted on: Addressing Women
July 14, 2012 at 12:55 PMAh, now it makes sense. Forum software needs a bit more intelligence... FB this is not.
Posted on: Addressing Women
July 14, 2012 at 12:27 PM"How perfect can a stranger be anyway?"
Probably more perfect than pesky family members, especially if they are the complicated chinese type!
Posted on: Addressing Women
July 14, 2012 at 12:25 PMAge is only one consideration, the other is 辈份 seniority. If she acts like your mum, calls her 阿姨. If she is more the sisterly mentor type, call her 姐。
My suggestion is to be safe and keep to non-committal greetings 你好、嗨 etc until you have a chance to hear what neighbours of similar status as you call her. Follow the crowd. Most people (native Chinese) do this, because they are as confused about this 姐妹姨妈姑嫂 business as you are. :-)
Posted on: 中外脱口秀
July 7, 2012 at 1:31 PM供您参考：
Article Title * Laughter Across the Great Wall: A Comparison of Chinese and Western Humour
Appears in Journal/Conference * Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Date published * 2000
Volume * 38
Cited in One Couple, Two Cultures (author: Dan Waters)
This journal does not have an electronic version. PM me if you can't get it. I have a PDF of it.
Posted on: 神话故事之女娲造人
June 6, 2012 at 4:59 PMConnie单人讲故事很好听，比一般对话更迷人，不妨来多几个！
Posted on: The Tea Scam
June 1, 2012 at 5:57 AMGetting away may be a problem though... When I first got approached, I didn't want to go but wasn't sure it was a scam so didn't insult the girls by rejecting them. Took 30 minutes for them to give up and move on!
Posted on: Hiring and Employment
May 26, 2012 at 3:13 AMYes, I thought the idea coming here was to get to be a child and learn to speak again.
Posted on: Hiring and Employment
May 26, 2012 at 2:58 AMNow that I've practiced all these phrases and ended up hiring a bunch of people I don't need, can you tell me how to fire them please! :-)
Next week's Qing Wen, perhaps?
Posted on: Addressing Women
July 14, 2012 at 1:21 PMhaha, but no fair, had me raisin to google translate for that one.