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kimiik
Posted on: Keen on Clean
November 18, 2010 at 9:19 AMWelcome Dilu. It's always nice to hear new voices on this Podcasts.
Speaking about 干净 from a foreign perspective, westerners always wonder why most chinese people take a shower in the evening but don't brush they teeth.
Also brushing teeth and washing face BEFORE breakfast seems to be typically chinese. No wonder breakfast taste bad. ;o)
Posted on: Surfing the Web Chinese Style
November 13, 2010 at 4:13 PMWhen you speak about another lesson during a podcast, it's always strange when it doesn't appear in the related lessons box :
Posted on: Leeching off the Parents
November 4, 2010 at 12:02 PMActually it wasn't 代名 (antonomasia) but 代名词 or 代词 (metonymy ?).
Posted on: Leeching off the Parents
November 3, 2010 at 11:59 PMI guess 啃老族 and 月光族 could be consider as some kind of chinese antonomasia (代称 or 代名).
Posted on: 澳门赌博
October 8, 2010 at 12:30 PM当然不可能把这枚钱币折合成真钱, 也不可能买任何东西。
Posted on: 澳门赌博
October 7, 2010 at 12:50 PMThis Poker Chip from the "Mongolian Gaming Entertainment Co. Ltd." is a fake.
Posted on: Too Many Food Allergies
October 5, 2010 at 9:06 AMI guess it would be convenient for a guy to be called 晓旭 (which sounds like 小婿) when visiting the parents of his girlfriend.
http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/%E5%A9%BF/1317228
Then, to bring more attraction, other parents may have called there child 嘉旭 or 佳旭 as it will sound like 佳婿.
Posted on: It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity
September 20, 2010 at 6:17 PMIs it possible to use 乎乎 with any one-syllable-adjective or is there a rule ?
傻乎乎
脏乎乎
臭乎乎
...
Posted on: 不能说的事儿
December 2, 2010 at 12:19 PMI though that "这么下流" was just the opposite "这么上流" (how sophisticate/upper-class). But it's much stronger than that !