User Comments - pearltowerpete
pearltowerpete
Posted on: Birth by Chinese Zodiac
November 11, 2008 at 3:17 AMI'm a rat on the Chinese Zodiac, and it's never made a whit of difference.
Maybe being a Libra pre-destined me towards being a huge Don DeLillo fan.
Posted on: The Artistic Little Brother
November 10, 2008 at 9:25 AMHi ruyide
生某人的气 means to get angry at someone (because they have done something wrong.)
对某人生气 means to vent one's anger at someone who did not do anything wrong but had the bad luck to be standing nearby the angry party.
Posted on: The Artistic Little Brother
November 10, 2008 at 9:23 AMHi bingge
The "verb 了 verb" construction is used with single-syllable repeated verbs. It is like 看看, 听听，etc.
So for example:
我听了听老师的话, 差点就睡觉了
I listened to the teacher and almost fell asleep.
他看了看妹妹画的漫画，觉得很有意思
He took a look at his sister's comic and thought it was pretty funny.
Posted on: Late Getting Back
November 10, 2008 at 9:16 AMHi hokuro
Thanks for pointing this out. It's fixed now.
Posted on: Getting a Driver's License
November 10, 2008 at 9:15 AMHi duheaume
It's fine to drop the 吗 in a question. Like in English, the tone at the end of the sentence will rise a bit to express the interrogative mood.
Posted on: What's Your Name?
November 10, 2008 at 7:28 AMHi vodochek
We aim to please! See you around the forums!
Posted on: On the Way
November 10, 2008 at 5:20 AMHi mikenotinjubei,
I'm not sure what you're seeing, but on my Expansion sentences screen I have 请问地铁站在哪儿 .
Of course if you were still in Jubei you would be asking about 捷運， not 地铁。
Posted on: Buying a Plasma TV
November 10, 2008 at 4:39 AMHi su1xiao3ya3
The sentence you are looking for is 我的心液晶电视在那里放着。
Since the TV is an inanimate object we shouldn't say that it is 站着。
Posted on: A Taxi for Tired Feet
November 10, 2008 at 3:16 AMHi daveyjohn
我爱你 wo3ai4ni3 is "I love you."
Posted on: DVDs and the Mao Suit
November 11, 2008 at 5:24 AMHi weijin
我认为抢版的抢应该读 qiang3, 虽然这个多音字也有qiang1 的读音，但qiang3 是抢劫或抢夺的意思。
I'm not really sure what you mean about ones ripped from a DVD. My understanding was that most 盗版碟子were ripped from DVDs...