User Comments - johnb
johnb
Posted on: I wet the bed!
May 9, 2011 at 7:50 AMHehe, maybe my mom was just unusually imaginative. :)
Urban Dictionary has it, though: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sleepy%20Bugs
Posted on: I wet the bed!
May 9, 2011 at 6:58 AMAlso, the name for what as kids we always called "sleepy bugs" (the goop when tears have dried around the corner of your eyes when you sleep) is 眼屎, which has entered my son and I's conversations directly as "eye poop."
Posted on: I wet the bed!
May 9, 2011 at 6:55 AM[ like ] :)
Posted on: I wet the bed!
May 9, 2011 at 5:12 AMIt also matches well with its #2 counterpart, 屎.
Posted on: A Notification Notification, and Other Happenings
May 8, 2011 at 8:00 AM:) Glad you liked it!
Posted on: Sending a Text Message
April 27, 2011 at 9:56 AMHi Tucsonmichael,
It seems that the lesson notification emails didn't send correctly on Monday or Tuesday. We've found the problem and fixed it, and so far today's email is sending properly. Hopefully that will be the last of it.
Very sorry for the inconvenience!
Posted on: Satellites, DVDs and ABCs
April 18, 2011 at 1:58 AMTrue enough, we were talking about the quasi-legal foreign satellite variety.
Also, 'barmy,' hey? If I say it slowly the 'L' in balmy really sticks out, but when I say it quickly it sort of disappears.
Posted on: Satellites, DVDs and ABCs
April 18, 2011 at 1:55 AMIt's funny, when we recorded that, I wasn't sure if the "we can only hope" was that we could only hope he did, or that he didn't.
I personally hope that he has a passion for souped up 摩托三轮车.
Posted on: Newbie News and Tomb-Sweeping Day
April 4, 2011 at 10:15 PMI do appreciate the thumbs up, though! I hope future newsletters will continue to thrill and enthrall! :) I think with a little work and (eventually) a nice stable format they can become a useful supplement to everyone's learning.
Posted on: Living in Nanjing
May 10, 2011 at 9:02 AMHonestly, though, this is one of those things (like saying 哪里哪里 to compliments) that seems to be taught to foreigners but that has no real basis in reality. I've travelled around a fair amount, and I've never seen this be a problem. I think a lot of it revolves around context and tone, especially as a foreigner.