User Comments - trevelyan
trevelyan
Posted on: World Records
December 11, 2007 at 4:03 AM@dubya - we're looking into it and will get this fixed for you. The vocab migration is completely done. If anyone else is experiencing vocab issues, please contact us.
Posted on: Feng Shui and Surgical Masks
December 10, 2007 at 12:43 AMIt's a big tent of man love, Dave. Happy to have you here.
Posted on: Feng Shui and Surgical Masks
December 7, 2007 at 7:52 PMBest friends I've made in China (foreign and chinese) I made teaching English. As with any experience, it's what you make of it. 8 months teaching in Beijing with no regrets here. Sure there are exploitative jobs. But if you end up in such a situation, it's easy enough to just leave. And at risk of being judgmental, I think Robert was acting in tremendously bad faith to quit a school as soon as they gave him a work visa. That sort of behavior is the major reason many schools are reluctant to give out work visas to new hires, and it hurts legitimate employees. I ended up leaving the school I was working before the contract was up, but left on good terms. If you take a job, you have certain obligations to integrity towards your employer that don't disappear just because you are in a foreign country.
Posted on: Feng Shui and Surgical Masks
December 7, 2007 at 10:32 AMI don't think anyone who was in China during SARS will ever forget 口罩. It's one of those words that just marks you as having been here during the pandemonium. Another one is "atypical" (非典型).
Posted on: Chinese Breakfast
December 2, 2007 at 6:30 AM要 is a bit more assertive - it *will* happen. 想 is more wishful. 想 is more useful in most situations imho.
Posted on: #26
December 1, 2007 at 12:03 PMThanks Lunetta, - you've got pretty stellar taste yourself. I actually know what film this is, but haven't actually seen the whole movie.
Posted on: Winter Fun
November 29, 2007 at 5:02 AMMark - if you're thinking of the same one I am, that's my favourite Twain quote. I think it translates roughly as: 我在三藩市过的唯一夏天是我一生最冷的冬天。
Posted on: Winter Fun
November 29, 2007 at 2:41 AMI've seen photos of places in 吉林 that look like that, but not Bejiing or Inner Mongolia.
Posted on: Where Children Come From
November 27, 2007 at 7:46 AMYou've just pushed the discussion to the top of the conversations page, lichade, so I'd guess quite a lot of people will be reading it. I was actually reminded of this exact lesson over the weekend reading one of San Mao's books. Her parents apparently also told her she was found in a dumpster....
Posted on: #28
December 13, 2007 at 1:52 AMGood show. I'm listening too. :)