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zhenlijiang
Posted on: Bad Cell Reception
March 5, 2009 at 5:37 AMyes like i said, there are variations. i'm not saying that anyone whose pronunciation differs from Jenny's is wrong. so do you mean no one should do the 儿化音 unless they're Beijingers?
Posted on: Bad Cell Reception
March 5, 2009 at 5:19 AMtrax, i'm not a native speaker and probably should keep out of this but Jenny isn't mispronouncing anything! have all your teachers been from the north like most of mine? some of my northerner teachers (the 80-qians mostly, the younger ones don't really do it that much) will incessantly tell us that standard pronunciation is not to be found south of the 长江, but remember, that's their take on it. if you went to announcers training school in BJ for example, you might be terrorized into that belief. there are personal variations among Beijingers too. the more native Chinese speakers you meet the more variations you're going to hear.
Posted on: Bad Cell Reception
March 5, 2009 at 3:48 AMPosted on: Saved by the Gong: Cutting Open a Frog
March 5, 2009 at 2:13 AMagain, sorry but not too surprised ...
Posted on: Bad Cell Reception
March 4, 2009 at 4:22 PMbluealvarez, i was taught that 念 is "read aloud". 读 i think can be either reading aloud or silently.
Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Cutting Open a Frog
March 4, 2009 at 2:12 PMbababardwan--hoping wallum prevailed.
(flushing exotic fish down the toilet!) but yes that's happening everywhere. the exotic frog we spotted i'm sure is from kids who caught tadpoles at fair stalls (along w/goldfish) then couldn't or didn't want to keep them once they became frogs.
Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Cutting Open a Frog
March 4, 2009 at 12:54 PMbababardwan, i'm sorry but not surprised i guess, to hear that you don't see litttle green frogs that were around when you were growing up anymore. that reminded me of an interview with Maggie Beer at her home in the Barossa that i saw (actually i've had the pleasure of meeting her once in Tokyo as well). it was a quicktime file and not too clear but you could hear the frogs all around her in the background. they're so loud she refers to it, saying that's a sign that the ecosystem is robust, where you have all those frogs happy and ribbit-ing. so she's getting all her produce and ingredients from that kind of environment. around where i live we've only had toads for as long as i remember, but even that's changing. the last two summers we've been hearing a strange frog voice, then we spotted a kind definitely not indigenous. the little green ones we still see around the rice paddies in my father's hometown.
Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Cutting Open a Frog
March 4, 2009 at 12:56 AMpaulinurus, eeeew all over again. boy's not biting!! he's simply holding froggie firm. no teeth.
Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Cutting Open a Frog
March 4, 2009 at 12:34 AMthe legs i guess, looks like he's writhing (wouldn't you, if your head were so rudely thrust into a boy's mouth?). now i'm sorry i said eeeeew. 可怜巴巴地要逃跑后肢乱动的这个。
PS oh so he's no victim. 原来是有善行的好青蛙。希望是志愿做的。
in any case, please tell me froggie's okay and not suffering from any PTSD.
Posted on: Bad Cell Reception
March 5, 2009 at 7:22 AMtrax, in addition to my last comment i honestly didn't mean to but i may have barked at you for your choice of words. i know you wanted not to offend, but "mis-pronounce" and "not proper" do sound quite strong. also when i ask about non-Beijingers using 儿化音 i'm not arguing, i really would like to know if Beijingers would find it inappropriate if i did it for example.