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rich
Posted on: Stargazing
March 5, 2008 at 10:46 PMno, human eyes are better now from genetically engineered carrots. ;-)
Posted on: Stargazing
March 5, 2008 at 10:30 PMHey all, Instead of my character breakdown story today, I went through all the 9 (8 + dwarf planet) planets and kind of matched the Chinese name up with the picture, as I found that the easiest way to remember all the planets in Chinese... I remember in 2003 I learned all the planet names in one sitting, never forgetting them. The only other time I done something like that is when I learned the exact order of all the Chinese zodiac animals in 2005 when sitting on a rickshaw going through the Hutong of Beijing (don't ask me why I decided to make the tour guide teach me it then, weird things like that just happen in my life... it had nothing to do with the tour :) Here is where you can find my picture-to-Chinese character table (didn't want to put it here to avoid cluttering this place, and so the pictures had more room): http://chinesepod.com/connections/viewpost/rich/connect/Graphical+way+to+remember+planet+names+%28from+Stargazing+Ploy+lesson%29
Posted on: Stargazing
March 5, 2008 at 9:07 PMFrom Futurama: (at Professor Farnsworth's latest invention, the smell-o-scope) Prof: Go on, try it. You'll find that every heavenly body has it's own particular scent. I'll just point it at Jupiter. Fry:*sniff* It smells like strawberries. Prof: Exactly, and now Saturn. Fry: Pineneedles! Oh, man this is great! Hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus, heh heh heh. Leela: I don't get it. Prof: I'm sorry, Fry. Astronomers changed the name of Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. Fry: Oh? What's it called now? Prof: Urrectum.
Posted on: Stargazing
March 5, 2008 at 9:01 PMSo Pluto 冥王星 isn't in her list either? I thought she was teaching what they learned in school, not what they do now that Pluto has been banished. So what we do in English now? My very excellent mother just served us nothing?
Posted on: MSN and QQ
March 4, 2008 at 12:38 PMGet a Chinese friernd to help you sign up... In 2004 I started using QQ beyond my decision... all the sudden, before I knew it, a few Chinese people I met in Inner Mongolia had signed me up for QQ... and I wasn't even sure what it was all about. Still I prefer MSN to talk with all my Chinese friends. How well is Skype received in China?
Posted on: MSN and QQ
March 4, 2008 at 8:08 AMSo, uh, Jenny... 你的QQ号码是多少? ;) (and your grandma's 呢? :P)
Posted on: MSN and QQ
March 4, 2008 at 8:06 AMOh, and like Ken said in the podcast, another translation of 我也是 is "Me too".
Posted on: MSN and QQ
March 4, 2008 at 8:05 AMmikeinewshot, 我也是 can be used after someone says something to somewhat mean "I'm also that way". It is more vague than saying "我也+V" where V is the verb used.
Posted on: My Scooter Won't Start
March 3, 2008 at 10:55 PMSo are scooter and motorcycle both the same word in Chinese? My dictionary doesn't have anything for scooter. And how similar is a scooter to an electric bike? I've been to Taipei 台北 and that is the place were I saw oceans of scooters! Yet not sure how similar they are to motorcycles.
Posted on: Stargazing
March 5, 2008 at 10:48 PMerrr...should have said human eye sight. Any (or any body for the matter) who fell for that line definitely doesn't have a light on up there...