User Comments - zhenlijiang

Posted on: Computer Problems and Tech Support

Sorry gesang that's because I deleted it once (it's back up there now).

Yes do use the Reply button!

Posted on: Computer Problems and Tech Support

Hi 格桑, until someone who knows well comes along to help here are my thoughts:

This 可 for emphasis is common. I quite like using it myself (can't really outline though, the guideline for when to choose it over others).

For this particular sentence I think you also have the option of 才: 那个酒吧乱七八糟的，我才不想去呢。 To me this sounds very strong (stronger in fact, than the one with 可)--"who would ever want to go there!"--that sort of tone.

真 I don't think you could use here (wish I could tell you with authority why ...). You might say 真的 I guess. But 可 seems like the most obvious choice for emphasizer in this instance.

(And I tend to see the "really" of 真的 as a different kind of "really" from a "I really don't want to go" kind. 真的 to me is a bit more like trying to convince someone that you really mean what you say, that something you say is from your heart and true.)

OK I'll stop right here before my 废话 confuses you any more!

Posted on: Visiting a Friend at the Hospital

Thank you Jiaojie 老师！

Posted on: Visiting a Friend at the Hospital

Visiting a Friend at the Hospital--the title of this lesson--in Chinese would be 去医院看望朋友 or 去医院探望朋友, is that right? Any difference between the two that makes one more appropriate than the other?

探病   探视
Are these terms also commonly used to refer to visiting people in hospital?

I've heard that hospitals in China don't really have visiting hours. So a visitor could just go by at any hour of day or night and stay with the 病人 as long as they wanted to?

Posted on: Moving In Together

Mandarinkoala, everyone is entitled to their opinion. But I wouldn't be surprised if anyone saw the last two lines in your comment as judgmental, even took offense. I know that if I were Xiaophil I would have difficulty not taking your reply to him as an assault.

Perhaps more people would like to talk about the lesson topic but are staying away, not wanting to have their personal decisions, and their partners, judged by people who know nothing about them. So could you just please make clear that you aren't judging anyone?

Posted on: Moving In Together

There's also a

QW on 非~ 不可, but yes it's explained well in this lesson by John and Jenny.

Posted on: Moving In Together

As for "censorship" I think the point is not that CPod acknowledged that anything was dishonorable but that they for whatever reason wrote and published a lesson Intro they themselves were less than 100% comfortable with in the first place. Otherwise they could have defended it, not withdrawn it as quickly as they did.

Posted on: Moving In Together

HTML 好难学呀~ (;O;)

Posted on: Moving In Together

Yeah Changye don't worry. You haven't missed anything at all.

Posted on: Moving In Together

There's no reason to call anyone a whining crybaby here. I have no problem with premarital cohabitation. If CPod wanted to stand by their Intro they could have.