I want to add more Chinese study material to Sinosplice, and the latest is a vocabulary list. Of Western alcohol. You won’t find any form of baijiu on the list, but if you ever wanted to know how to say “Guinness” or “Jim Beam” or “Sex on the Beach” in Chinese, this is for you.
It’s noteworthy that many of these names do not have a standard name (especially mixed drinks), so many variations are possible, but the names in …
I just got an e-mail from Dashan. I never intended for Dashan to see the page (or my blog entry about him, which isn’t completely complimentary). I didn’t realize, though, that because of Derisive Dashan Sinosplice had taken over the #2 spot in the Google search for “dashan,” second only to Dashan’s official site.
最近在我的英文blog上写了一篇关于“侏儒”的文章。但我还是搞不清楚“侏儒”这个词到底包不包含贬义。
有人说这个词本身没有贬义，但如果我在一个人的面前说他是“侏儒”他肯定会不高兴。有一点难听。有人跟我说我们不用说出来，不用贴难听的标签。
可是如果不使用“侏儒”这个词那么不是根本没有办法形容这个人的特别状况吗？这跟“个子比较矮的人”不一样。
我的意思并不是说我们都应该任意地用“侏儒”这个词。它实在难听的话，我们应该说它是贬义词，就不用它。但没有这样一个中性的词是不行的。我们不能说着“别贴标签”否认一种人的存在。
我觉得他们需要一个褒义词。这样他们也可以用，也不会伤害他们的自尊心。如果中文里面真的没有，我想这表示一种社会问题。
我再问一次：中文里有没有褒义词能代替“侏儒”？…
Is it my imagination, or is Sitemeter now blocked in China? That is just downright annoying. If it is now permanently blocked, I need to get it off all my templates, because it’s slowing my page load way down.
In other news, I recently shaved my head again (I do that from time to time) and I’m growing my beard again. So I look something like a convict. I look a lot like I do in this picture from …
很久没写我的中文blog了。一方面是我太懒，但还有一方面就是这个blog有一些问题我想先解决。我已经不用GB2312编码了，现在用UTF-8。希望以后我的blog没有乱码问题。
我想以后会多写我对中国新闻的看法，也会多写跟我英文blog有关系的文章。
反正我要恢复努力学习中文，包括写文章方面。…
I have lived in China for almost four years. This means that I have missed out on a lot of new TV shows over the years. I don’t mind at all for the most part; I’m not a big fan of TV. But occasionally I do like to pick up some TV shows on DVD. Recently I was watching an episode of CSI which dealt with dwarves.
There was one scene in particular which caught my attention. Character Nick Stokes …
I’m in the middle of my “Labor Day” week of vacation, and enjoying it immensely. I am no longer sick, and have managed not to pick up any more pets. I’m working on my site and working on my book (that will be published some day!).
And now Carl and Jamie are visiting from ZUCC.
The only damper is that I have to work this weekend, and then all next week. Why? It’s the Chinese way. They still don’t get …
I installed Movable Type way back in November, 2003, but it wasn’t until this week that I finally got my archives all in order. Let me tell you, it’s a nightmare to take 200+ old posts that had been formatted for Blogger, reformat them individually (MT can only do so much when it imports them), and assign categories to each. I even fixed my old internal links so that they point to the correct new MT entry instead of the …
I had been resisting naming my rabbits. I guess it was because I never really expected them to live long. But as the end of week one rolled around, I decided I should name them. The vendor said they were a male/female pair, so I figured I should name them as a pair. They’re Chinese rabbits and I’m in China, so Chinese names seemed appropriate. I named the girl Tai Tai (台台) and the boy Bo Bo (伯伯). (These names …
John has lived in China for
11.8
years. He is a linguist focused on SLA and tech.
All Posts