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Is "Sky Dragon Kingdom" the next album from that heavy metal legislator?
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# ? Jan 26, 2016 15:24 |
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# ? Jun 6, 2024 06:28 |
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Chantilly Say posted:Is "Sky Dragon Kingdom" the next album from that heavy metal legislator? They've crossed the rainbow bridge already, so they've got to be close.
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# ? Jan 26, 2016 15:29 |
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Chantilly Say posted:Is "Sky Dragon Kingdom" the next album from that heavy metal legislator? Is he a Dragonforce kind of metal guy? I was hoping he was a norwegian death metal kind of guy .
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# ? Jan 26, 2016 15:31 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_UkowmQs30 Available on Spotify, makes great workout music.
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# ? Jan 26, 2016 15:43 |
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Back when I was going to NTU, I joined a student volunteer organization that took care of autistic children. I remember there was one kid, his thing was flushing toilets and watching the water swirl away. No one could figure out why he liked doing such a pointless and wasteful thing, but in any case he really, really, really enjoyed doing that. And god help you if you tried to stop him from flushing the toilet 87 times on any given field trip.
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# ? Jan 26, 2016 15:49 |
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Barto posted:Back when I was going to NTU, I joined a student volunteer organization that took care of autistic children. as a californian, this offends me
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# ? Jan 26, 2016 15:54 |
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The ESL Apocalypse Update Apparently, some rather well off buxiban is offering to take over all of Wells English's students (for free). Actually, the point is to get them into their own classrooms and then upsell them once they're settled in. Not a great thing, but it might do something to lessen the coming fury. Luckily for the industry as a whole, although the Executive Yuan has already taken notice of and make preparations to act on the situation, because of the change in power they're choosing not to act yet. They don't want to make any waves they don't have to before the new bosses come in. That probably gives the situation about half a year to cool down. If everything's fine in half a year, the problem might be avoided (for now), if not, then the hammer will come down around July or August. The greens aren't particularly enamored of Taipei business interests either, so they might make a point of dealing with the buxiban schools harshly. But anyway, the market is still crowded for teachers and probably going to get worse for awhile.
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# ? Jan 26, 2016 15:56 |
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the venerable gibbis china.jpg thread posted:The Great Laowai invasion No Way, how did we not know about this? Like, it's almost as if like there's this known quantity, and most folk regard it as a terrible cliché. Mind-fukn-blown (zhe ge emote shi for hao zhi dong)
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# ? Jan 26, 2016 18:38 |
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The Worst Muslim posted:I KNOW WHAT JOKES ARE, bellows Pandemonium from atop his 20 ft. tall steel robot.
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 06:09 |
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 07:02 |
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for those of you watching in black & white (avatars off)
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 07:10 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX7iZRB-TTU
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 07:30 |
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Fwiw Pandemonium, while you're free'd from the onerous responsibility of posting, feel free to PM (that still works on pink banner mode iirc) any of us Taipei goons, I'm sure any of us would be happy to spend an evening in Ximen while you're up here this weekend. Alternatively, join the LINE chat as previously suggested. url fucked around with this message at 10:25 on Jan 27, 2016 |
# ? Jan 27, 2016 09:35 |
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ugh Grand Fromage did you really have to use simplified characters !!
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 10:54 |
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Why do people get so hurt over simplification but not how in the 70's CKS's government threw out/banned thousands of until-then commonly used 俗体字 to cement 国语 as some weird master-language for the island, and for undisclosed reasons opted to choose several variants of common characters that just happened to be different from what the mainland chose 10~ years earlier when standardizing their character set? This is a serious question since I see a ton of westerners get really crazy about this (some in this thread), more so than the Taiwanese professors I had in school, and I've always been curious about it. I mean outside of the obvious bragging point of "heh, 忧郁? i can write 憂鬱 cuz I'm a traditionalist" (real thing from some white dude in Taipei when I was studying there)
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 08:33 |
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Magna Kaser posted:Why do people get so hurt over simplification but not how in the 70's CKS's government threw out/banned thousands of until-then commonly used 俗体字 to cement 国语 as some weird master-language for the island, and for undisclosed reasons opted to choose several variants of common characters that just happened to be different from what the mainland chose 10~ years earlier when standardizing their character set? i don't like simplified because it looks gross and the characters have less meaning to me the end
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 08:46 |
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duckfarts posted:i don't like simplified because it looks gross and the characters have less meaning to me That's a totally ok and understandable reason to prefer one set over the other but some people get super mad over it and that's what I was more asking, especially since it's all kind of arbitrary and taiwan's character set has a fair number of "simplified" characters in it (台、才、等等)
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 08:53 |
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I think that simplified looks ugly like a butt, but from what I understand a lot of them are easier to write when taking notes or whatever. I guess it's kind of like writing "u r such a qt! Ttyl!" Looks ugly as gently caress but super convenient. Edit: I kind of want the US to mandate that all English is written in AOL speak.
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 09:39 |
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This will never get old, or stop being stupidly hilarious to me.
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 09:56 |
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Magna Kaser posted:That's a totally ok and understandable reason to prefer one set over the other but some people get super mad over it and that's what I was more asking, especially since it's all kind of arbitrary and taiwan's character set has a fair number of "simplified" characters in it (台、才、等等) I think it's just a fact that many people who seriously study Mandarin are highly confrontational sperglords with superiority complexes.
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 10:01 |
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Magna Kaser posted:Why do people get so hurt over simplification but not how in the 70's CKS's government threw out/banned thousands of until-then commonly used 俗体字 to cement 国语 as some weird master-language for the island, and for undisclosed reasons opted to choose several variants of common characters that just happened to be different from what the mainland chose 10~ years earlier when standardizing their character set?
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 10:07 |
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Or Americans reducing the number of l's in words because gently caress the French.
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 10:28 |
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url posted:This I wish webster had won out in the US and made English spelling make sense. His American contemporaries were too stodgy so now "laugh" is still that and not "laff".... TetsuoTW posted:I think it's because that's not really something most foreign students of Chinese are ever taught. It's like people getting uppity about Americanisms like "fall" or "gotten". My British coworkers always laughed at me for "eggplant".
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 10:57 |
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Magna Kaser posted:Why do people get so hurt over simplification but not how in the 70's CKS's government threw out/banned thousands of until-then commonly used 俗体字 to cement 国语 as some weird master-language for the island, and for undisclosed reasons opted to choose several variants of common characters that just happened to be different from what the mainland chose 10~ years earlier when standardizing their character set?
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 13:29 |
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Magna Kaser posted:His American contemporaries were too stodgy so now "laugh" is still that and not "laff".... Larf surely? For every eggplant, I suffer the indignity of having to say rowter instead of rooter, and then when I am home my family then re-correct back. Its a lose-lose :/
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 13:43 |
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Wait what's all this about eggplants?
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 14:24 |
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Atlas Hugged posted:Wait what's all this about eggplants? Aubergine.
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 14:44 |
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Chantilly Say posted:Aubergine.
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 14:57 |
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Magna Kaser posted:That's a totally ok and understandable reason to prefer one set over the other but some people get super mad over it and that's what I was more asking, especially since it's all kind of arbitrary and taiwan's character set has a fair number of "simplified" characters in it (台、才、等等) I never knew 才 was a simplification but now looking it up I can totally see why. Jesus fuckin Christ, ancient China.
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 15:50 |
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The one I'm really not sure about is whether a gorget and a gherkin are different things or the same veggie.
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 15:54 |
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I'm p sure courgettes are zucchinis
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 16:49 |
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TetsuoTW posted:I'm p sure courgettes are zucchinis Is that the name for those loofah plants? I think those are cucumbers, technically.
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 16:57 |
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No courgettes are like little marrows, cucumbers are a bit different and harder to grow.Barto posted:Luckily for the industry as a whole, although the Executive Yuan has already taken notice of and make preparations to act on the situation, because of the change in power they're choosing not to act yet. They don't want to make any waves they don't have to before the new bosses come in. That probably gives the situation about half a year to cool down. If everything's fine in half a year, the problem might be avoided (for now), if not, then the hammer will come down around July or August. What does the hammer coming down mean, because that's when my contract finishes
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 23:32 |
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House Louse posted:No courgettes are like little marrows, cucumbers are a bit different and harder to grow. A banning of the loan and contract practices for new enrollments. Meaning that if any business hasn't gotten their poo poo together by the time this happens, their revenue will suddenly be cut off and regardless of the quality of their classes or their ability to recruit new students, they won't be receiving the large lump sums they need to meet operating costs every month and will go under. Edit: I just looked up 才 and I had no idea it was a simplified form of 纔. Can you imagine writing that multiple times a day? I will say that if you are unfamiliar with traditional it looks worse than it is. It's only five radicals, though the fourth is both halves of compare and the fifth is the entirety of rabbit. Which leads me to another question. When counting radicals, do you reduce them to their smallest components or to their most well known? Like rabbit itself is four radicals, but in 纔 I'd describe it as one. Atlas Hugged fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Jan 29, 2016 |
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Atlas Hugged posted:A banning of the loan and contract practices for new enrollments. Meaning that if any business hasn't gotten their poo poo together by the time this happens, their revenue will suddenly be cut off and regardless of the quality of their classes or their ability to recruit new students, they won't be receiving the large lump sums they need to meet operating costs every month and will go under. Technically speaking the only radical that matters it the one used for organization, which in this case is糹。In a dictionary that character would just be 糹+ however many strokes it has. I've never seen characters organized by how many pieces they have total, but there could be a different organizational method I don't know about. Realistically speaking everyone does what you do which is split characters into chunks that make the most sense to them because that's way easier to remember and junk, and I'm guessing 99.9% of Chinese speakers would also pull out the 兔 as a part. And yeah it's not super complicated (糹+ 㲋 + 兔)but would be annoying to write since 才 is a p common word. I think I've lost all ability to handwrite traditional, sadly. I just picked up a pen and couldn't even remember how to do the traditional form of 為。。。。
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 01:33 |
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Magna Kaser posted:Technically speaking the only radical that matters it the one used for organization, which in this case is糹。In a dictionary that character would just be 糹+ however many strokes it has. I've never seen characters organized by how many pieces they have total, but there could be a different organizational method I don't know about. I actually split this (㲋) into three, haha. I don't organize them by chunks, I learn them through mnemonics as narrative building blocks. For me, the radicals are relevant to me only as the ones I learned to build that character with. For instance, the character in question was taught to me as "not until", with the story: Not until your jaw heals will you be able to eat solid food again, but for now thread has been used to bind your mouth shut comparatively smaller than a rabbit's. The astute will recognize this as the Heisig method, which is mildly controversial since it sometimes ignores actual etymology in favor of something more visually obvious. However, though I was unaware that 才 and 纔 were related, I did instantly recognize it. So I'm totally comfortable with the method.
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 02:22 |
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Honestly I've always thought the "oh no it loses the etymology" aspect is kind of a lame argument against learning characters with mnemonics/etc since so many characters have nothing to do with their makeup etymology. Sure, a lot do have a lot of hidden etymology in them but just as many (if not more) lost all that hundreds or thousands of years ago as written Chinese evolved over time and the actual makeup of characters changed. In my experience most native Chinese speakers tend to use chunking-type methods to remember (or at least describe) more complicated characters as they describe them as "thing next to other thing on third thing" etc...
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 04:09 |
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I actually use handwriting input on my phone to input a lot of characters, but 㲋 wasn't recognized at all. Pleco tells me it's some ancient word for a rabbit like animal which I guess is obvious when looking at it. Learn something new every day.
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 04:19 |
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Magna Kaser posted:In my experience most native Chinese speakers tend to use chunking-type methods to remember (or at least describe) more complicated characters as they describe them as "thing next to other thing on third thing" etc... I've been kinda mixing this and mnemonics myself. Like, my Chinese name I remember by "horse with two extra bits in front, happy, and 'guy leaning next to a house with some windows or legs or something.'" Of course, I've been terrible at remembering characters, so...
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kou kou quan
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