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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Polygon rear end is a good combination of words. Thank you. The pointy butts of Final Fantasy also thank you. You're welcome.
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P-Mack posted:Yeah, I know that and think it's cool, but the person in the article is looking at 日 and seeing 🌞 the same way I see "sun" and think 🌞, because that's what we were taught. Yeah, that parallel in the article is a bit retarded to anyone who understands the principles of linguistics. Also, Chinese is basically the only modern language that uses any sort of pictographical or logographical writing system. Every other living language is either Syllabic like Japanese Kana or segmented which have phonetic characters so trying to make any sort of writing parallels between Chinese and any other language is like trying to compare apples to crankshafts.
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Jan 10, 2017 22:56
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How do you say "I'm gay" in mandarin?
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Jan 10, 2017 23:05
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Homosexuality does not exist in China. Nor does happiness if you meant it that way.
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Jan 10, 2017 23:28
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我不是同性戀，所以我不能評論
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Homosexuality does not exist in China. Nor does happiness if you meant it that way. Nor does homosexuality exist in Japan it is a western import please ignore these medieval woodcuts of effeminate samurai fuckboys
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Fojar38 posted:please ignore these medieval woodcuts of effeminate samurai fuckboys Yeah, right, I'm only human!
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pentyne posted:Bit of a simplification but holy gently caress who would leave their native country after 30 years for a foreign land without even having a basic grasp of the new language they were about to be immersed in? Quite a few people in this thread
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Jan 11, 2017 00:56
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Fojar38 posted:Nor does homosexuality exist in Japan it is a western import please ignore these medieval woodcuts of effeminate samurai fuckboys No gays, AIDS or SARS in Korea either. Kimchi is the cure-all for everything.
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Blistex posted:What's crazy is that the British would march up to a town/village/city/battlefield and everyone would be dead, and they would be totally confused as to what happened. The actual fighting between the British and the Chinese was more or less a sideshow to the infighting going on in China. Warlords would see that the imperial army was in disarray during this time and would swoop in and wreck their own people's poo poo to make some short-term gains. Also the numerous representatives of the emperor pretending they had the power to mediate and the British getting pissed that nothing was happening, and moving on to the next garrison to destroy. It was basically the Chinese lining up to get curb-stomped over and over, and the guy next in line would tell the person behind him that they were winning. quote:“Repeatedly during the war, Qing armies of thousands would be routed by a few hundred, or even a few dozen well-disciplined British troops with functioning artillery and battle-plans.19 The Wiki doesn't count it but the British lost 448 men to disease out of 5,329 in one place to malaria(Flu like symptoms and vomiting) and dysentery(making GBS threads to death).
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oohhboy posted:The Wiki doesn't count it but the British lost 448 men to disease out of 5,329 in one place to malaria(Flu like symptoms and vomiting) and dysentery(making GBS threads to death). Sounds like they were eating Chinese food.
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Jan 11, 2017 01:22
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The gutter oil flu.
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Blistex posted:Sounds like they were eating Chinese food. western man cannot digest chinese food properly as they are different
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Jan 11, 2017 01:33
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Blistex posted:No gays, AIDS or SARS in Korea either. Kimchi is the cure-all for everything. Eh, Korea acknowledges the gays exist. It's just still considered about as icky as it was in the US/Europe 15-20 years ago.
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Warbadger posted:Eh, Korea acknowledges the gays exist. It's just still considered about as icky as it was in the US/Europe 15-20 years ago. This was a line that I was fed back in 2006 when I first went to Korea. I figured they were wrong about they gay aspect when a Korean guy in his 40's grabbed my dilz in the sauna when I was having a nap.
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Maybe they believe that they haven't had gay people historically because they operated on Greco-Roman rules of buttfucking (only gay if you're catching and even then it doesnt make you gay it makes you a woman)
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It's not gay, it's Korean culture, please respect it.
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pentyne posted:holy gently caress who would leave their native country after 30 years for a foreign land without even having a basic grasp of the new language they were about to be immersed in?
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to be fair, its adventurous, I did the same thing at about 20, but actually learned Japanese.
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Glenn Quebec posted:Don't loving no why me guys I want a real answer For the no tea while sick thing I'm sure it's about qi and magical energy and other horseshit. For normally... ? ? ? quote:I’d go in just after the Old Swan opened and read and write. “A cup of hot water without a tea bag please,” I would say. The woman behind the counter began to take this as a sort of weird insult, knowing that I would be sitting in the corner for hours. Captain Yossarian posted:How do you say "I'm gay" in mandarin? 我是同志 Wo shi tongzhi is the only way I know. Tongzhi also means comrade but is now slang for gay, and the CCP is insisting on party members calling each other comrade again so Chinese people are very amused. Jeoh posted:It's not gay, it's Korean culture, please respect it. I was also told there are no gay people in Korea. My first month in Korea I didn't know anything and thought they were really open and accepting of gays because there were openly, flaming gay dudes everywhere. Later I learned it's manly in Korea to sit on your friend's lap and do his makeup while he grabs your thigh nothing gay about it, just bro stuff.
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"Do Asian people get nonsensical English words tattooed on their bodies the way that non-Asian people get random Chinese characters tattooed on their bodies?"
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I realise it probably says Personal Best but I read it as Seasonal Best at first
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That woman has since published multiple books, directed movies, and become a naturalized citizen of the UK. She overcame her indoctrination and endured the hardships of living in a completely different place from her own and succeeded. Good for her! I found the whole "we" and "I" thing interesting. It's not really a language thing as much as an ideology thing, since the words in Chinese mean the same thing in English. It's just that she a very inward looking view of things to the point where the word "we" implicitly included "the Chinese people" in her head. Also studying a language by opening a dictionary and starting from "A" is a very Chinese way of studying.
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simplefish posted:I realise it probably says Personal Best but I read it as Seasonal Best at first
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Plastic surgery with Chinese characteristics coming to a Lower Mainland basement near you!quote:Patients of suspected fake Delta, B.C., plastic surgeon warned to get tested for HIV, hepatitis
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There is very little more horrifying or upsetting to me than the prospect of getting HIV or any sort of disease transmitted to me from back alley surgery.
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It's a common enough thing for people to become barbers and then move on to unlicensed and no qualification dentistry afterward that there's a specific name for it, black dentists.
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basic hitler posted:There is very little more horrifying or upsetting to me than the prospect of getting HIV or any sort of disease transmitted to me from back alley surgery. It's easy enough to avoid basement plastic surgeons by not ever going to one. Grand Fromage posted:It's a common enough thing for people to become barbers and then move on to unlicensed and no qualification dentistry afterward that there's a specific name for it, black dentists. That sounds like some sort of Dickensian horror where the dentist takes a tot of rum and then pulls your tooth.
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How the gently caress do you make the jump from barber to fake dentist? Why not just go straight into fake dentist? What possible skills could running a clipper over someone's scalp give you that would benefit you yanking out people's rotted molars?
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:How the gently caress do you make the jump from barber to fake dentist? Why not just go straight into fake dentist? What possible skills could running a clipper over someone's scalp give you that would benefit you yanking out people's rotted molars? A chair that leans back.
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Well the overhead is having a chair that can raise or lower when you step on a pedal. I would assume.
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:How the gently caress do you make the jump from barber to fake dentist? Why not just go straight into fake dentist? What possible skills could running a clipper over someone's scalp give you that would benefit you yanking out people's rotted molars? have you seen the cost of a legit boob job? im not made of money, but I need a sweet pair of DDs under my hairy man chest
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:How the gently caress do you make the jump from barber to fake dentist? Why not just go straight into fake dentist? What possible skills could running a clipper over someone's scalp give you that would benefit you yanking out people's rotted molars? Krinkle posted:Well the overhead is having a chair that can raise or lower when you step on a pedal. I would assume. loving lol
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I think this is the Sinica episode where they talked about it. https://www.podcat.com/podcasts/YwNpqh-popup-chinese/episodes/6JSwyd-sinica-styling-it-in-china
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:How the gently caress do you make the jump from barber to fake dentist? Why not just go straight into fake dentist? What possible skills could running a clipper over someone's scalp give you that would benefit you yanking out people's rotted molars? It's the medieval way. Barbers used to do dentistry
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Re: 5000 years of lies What is y'all's guess on the percentage of modern English high school and university (100-200 level) world/Asian history texts contain anything about 5000 years of Chinese history/culture? I kinda want to download some textbooks and find out if any say that.
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Outside China? There are certainly going to be some. "World history" textbooks for those survey courses are a poo poo job to make and often poorly researched, so people with a deadline and no idea might just throw it in. There's not going to be any legitimate academic material making the 5000 year claim though. The CCP made that up and it's based on using a chronology that includes mythical figures like the Yellow Emperor. Actual information: - Putting a specific date on the beginning of a culture is really hard and not necessarily useful. It's not like you have a people who are X culture one day and Y the next. - History in the academic sense means writing, and the oldest known, proven, and dated Chinese writing is about 3,600 years old. Therefore, Chinese history begins 3,600 years ago unless earlier writing is uncovered. Now, that writing that has been found is clearly a fully developed writing system so it's not like they made it up the day before they carved those turtle shells, it's certainly somewhat older than 3,600 years. But you have to find some, otherwise it's speculative and useless. - Dating back to the beginning of human habitation is possible in theory but completely useless, a culture living in the Yellow River valley 20,000 years ago is not Chinese. Also that means the US has ~30,000 years of history please respect our ancient culture. - Being focused on dates and who is first/older is entirely missing the point of learning about history. Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 08:35 on Jan 11, 2017 |
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Grand Fromage posted:Your thought is correct. It is everywhere and taught in school and stuff. Anecdotally I have never met a Chinese or Korean person who didn't believe wholeheartedly in TCM. It also exists in other Asian countries but I don't have enough experience in any others to say. This reminds me of a culture shock moment I had watching Running Man a few years ago. For those who don't know, it's a Korean variety show which takes places in a different location each week. This one week, it took place in a brand new multi-storey Korean medical centre/out patient hospital. It was all state of the art stuff - modern x-rays, ultrasounds and even cat scan and PET machines. All the way up to surgical theatres and several independent medical groups renting space there. As good as anything you'd expect to see anywhere in the world. The centre hadn't officially opened yet, so one of the members of the cast decided to be the very first person to get their health checked there. So he walked into one of the diagnosis room, met with a doctor and had the lines on his palm read 
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An anesthesiologist is seen as a Real Doctor's bitchboy in Korea, therefore no one wants to be one, therefore they are chronically short of them and the ones they do have often make double what the surgeon makes. Because you want to be a Strong Man Doctor, not someone who assists.
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There was a great doc where I lived in Korea, he went to med school in the US and spoke perfectly native fluent English so he was popular among the expats. He'd tell us about the differences and how he had to give Korean patients a bunch of placebos. For example, if you go to the doctor in Korea there's a 90% chance you're going to get a shot in the rear end. The shot is just some vitamins and saline there's no actual medicine in it, but Koreans expect a shot so they have to give one. If you ask any Korean child to draw a doctor they draw someone jamming a giant hypodermic needle into someone's rear end. Other fun thing is to ask a Korean child to do an impression of their dad. Cue room of ten year olds doing their best stumble around drunk and vomiting impression.
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