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Grand Fromage posted:Makes sense I bet you can't get Indian food anywhere in Vancouver. There's a joke in Vancouver: What river separates China from India? The Fraser. Vancouver has both a massive Chinese population and a massive Indian population. Most of the Indian families have been here for a few generations so there is much less of a culture shock with them than with mainlanders. We have Hockey Night in Canada broadcast in Punjabi, but unfortunately still get the occasional "honour" killing.
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Blistex posted:"What is this peripheral vision foreigners talk about?" LentThem posted:i swear this has to be a side effect of being conditioned from an early age to Mr Magoo your way through life
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McGavin posted:There's a joke in Vancouver: What river separates China from India? The Fraser. The Hong Kong and Taiwan families look at mainlanders funny as well because most early immigrants came from Southern China whereas you know have North East, Sichuan and other places. Different food and customs and all
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...m_medium=social You guys might like this, an article about climate change destroying florida real estate.
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MSN had some tabloid-style story about how a woman divorced her husband and the ex married her best friend and now they all work together running a restaurant, and somehow some people think its some sort of love triangle or bigamy or something, and this amazing Singapore guy commented quote:The bad point of human is having an intelligece brain misuse it by becoming BUSY BOGIES. Take The Womwn Charter as an example. Just because The Initial few women is of "jealous nature, objected to their husbands having multiple wives propsed to their Governments and able to convice them to accept the Women Charter made into laws of 'One husband to One wife.'
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Apr 25, 2017 08:35
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I'll take Original Position Fallacy for $100, Max.
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Goons living in China who are concerned about the toxins they're breathing in and want to do something about it may want to watch this video: "Best Food to Counter the Effects of Air Pollution" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uksaJeHfmsA If you're too busy to watch it all, the answer is broccoli, but if you have the time, the science behind it is really very interesting.
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Escape Addict posted:Goons living in China who are concerned about the toxins they're breathing in and want to do something about it may want to watch this video: From the video description: "There is a food that offers the best of both worlds, significantly improving our ability to detox carcinogens like diesel fumes and decreasing inflammation in our airways all the while improving our respiratory defences against infections." Detox is a key word usually used by fraudster or someone much too confident in their study.
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Escape Addict posted:Goons living in China who are concerned about the toxins they're breathing in and want to do something about it may want to watch this video: Why is the answer always some lovely tasting vegetable?
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Apr 25, 2017 11:28
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Please do not speak ill of broccoli.
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Boiled Water posted:From the video description: "There is a food that offers the best of both worlds, significantly improving our ability to detox carcinogens like diesel fumes and decreasing inflammation in our airways all the while improving our respiratory defences against infections." Your suspicion is healthy. However, the reason he uses "detox" is because he's trying to dumb it down enough to get people to listen. The much lengthier version is that compounds in broccoli boost the activity of a specific enzyme found in lung and nasal tissue which reduces inflammation and helps the body rid itself of certain toxins. One study mentioned in the video specifically mentions the elimination of benzene from the body being boosted by the ingestion of broccoli sprouts. This man is an American doctor who just got fed up with patients not doing enough to keep themselves healthy, instead relying on last-resort medications when they could have mitigated or prevented illness entirely with a healthier diet. The videos he makes aren't sponsored by broccoli companies. He wants people to help themselves. Like I said, suspicion is healthy and always crank your bullshit-detector to its highest setting. But I wouldn't post it here if I didn't think it had value.
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Yeah, broccoli and other leafy greens are p good, if just for the antioxidant value alone. And if you don't like broccoli, you can try covering it in cheese sauce or sauteing it in soy sauce.
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Apr 25, 2017 11:42
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Deep fry it then dip it in ranch sauce.
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What's the tradeoff when the broccoli is full of heavy metals from the soil, though?
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Broccoli is delicious and I shant hear differently I recognize that it's hard for goons to actually eat anything that isn't double deep fried but I assure you fresh, crunchy broccoli is amazing
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peak debt posted:Deep fry it ftfy Pham Nuwen posted:What's the tradeoff when the broccoli is full of heavy metals from the soil, though? Probably negating the benefits. If there has been a theme in this thread when it comes to air/water/food pollution, it's that you don't worry that much about it, and limit yourself to as short a stay as possible to mitigate the effects.
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WarpedNaba posted:Yeah, broccoli and other leafy greens are p good, if just for the antioxidant value alone. ^^^ paid for by BIG BROCCOLI lobby
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You know who else hated broccoli? GHW Bush. Many people no one say that stance contributed to his humiliating defeat in 1992 You want a second term as president? eat your broccoli! http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/23/us/i-m-president-so-no-more-broccoli.html
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I'd rather have E.Coli than Broc.Coli
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WarpedNaba posted:Yeah, broccoli and other leafy greens are p good, if just for the antioxidant value alone. antioxidants have been a fake idea for years now btw
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broccoli stir fried with soy sauce garlic and ginger is the only chinese food I bother cooking myself, goes well with almost anything
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https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/the-struggles-of-writing-about-chinese-food-as-a-chinese-person I was attracted by the noodle tentacle picture but then got hit by WADE GILES followed by 5000 years of Chinese history.
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Article seemed pretty reasonable to me. Isn't her name Wade Giles though? Chuen is not pin yin.
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EorayMel posted:High Quality Deer Blood Sexual powder for women Ages ago I know, but I sent this link to my wife and her response she sent me a link to what appeared to be a knock off fleshlight.
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bamhand posted:Article seemed pretty reasonable to me. Isn't her name Wade Giles though? Chuen is not pin yin. She's Taiwanese and Taiwan used Wade Giles for names for a long time until like the end of the 2000s.
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Yeah but that makes it extra funny when she starts complaining about Wade Giles.
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bamhand posted:Yeah but that makes it extra funny when she starts complaining about Wade Giles. She was at least consistent in her wade giles hate cuz the only Taiwanese city she mentioned in the article was the only big one where the Wade Giles and Pinyin match up. I was kind of weirded out with that and how she mentioned it was a problem but offered no alternative (Pinyin? Latinhua Xin Wenz? Just write Bopomofo??) and it kind of took away from her main point. But tbh wade giles is dumb and bad for a lot of reasons and it should go away. Really these days the only places you see it are on Chinese menus in north america, europe, and in Taiwan for romanization (Sometimes, but not always, which is actually more annoying than if it was just consistent). Ailumao fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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We angered the Chinese football fans again https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/04/26/annihilate-british-dogs-chinese-football-fans-unfurl-anti-independence-banner-hong-kong-game/ HKFP posted:Chinese football fans unfurled an anti-Hong Kong independence banner during a football game between the territories’ respective league champions on Tuesday evening.
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They have come so far.
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Why on earth does Taiwan not want to rejoin the mainland fold? 
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Wade-Giles is bad but Pinyin is hardly better. Why does "q" represent /tɕʰ/ when they could have just written "ch", which is much closer? Why does "x" represent /ɕ/ when they could have just written "sh", which is much closer? Why does "c" represent /ts/ when it could have just been written as a simple goddamn "ts"? Why do "sh*" and "ch*" almost make sense, except when followed by an "i", at which point they sound like shur and chur? There are more but you get the point. Before anyone says "well as long as you've learned the system, you'll know how to pronounce things with it," I'm pretty sure the same was true for Wade-Giles, at least initially. I took a quick look at the wikipedia page for Wade-Giles just now because I'm not very familiar with it, and it seems like it actually provides a system that is fleshed out enough to properly represent Chinese words. The only problem is that it makes strange choices for the Roman characters it uses to represent the Chinese sounds, which naturally has led to misinterpretation. The reason the same thing hasn't happened with Pinyin isn't because it's superior in some way. It's because Chinese people are the ones who predominately use it, and they obviously already know how to pronounce their own words. As a Romanization system, Pinyin fails for exactly the same reason that Wade-Giles does. Case in point: show literally anyone who is unacquainted with Pinyin a sentence in Pinyin, and they will completely mangle the pronunciation regardless of how capable they are of actually producing Mandarin phonemes.
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Devils Affricate posted:Wade-Giles is bad but Pinyin is hardly better. Why does "q" represent /tɕʰ/ when they could have just written "ch", which is much closer? Why does "x" represent /ɕ/ when they could have just written "sh", which is much closer? Why does "c" represent /ts/ when it could have just been written as a simple goddamn "ts"? Why do "sh*" and "ch*" almost make sense, except when followed by an "i", at which point they sound like shur and chur? There are more but you get the point. No offense but you're insanely ignorant about Mandarin phonology and don't know what you are talking about. Pinyin is very good at certain things, namely it is extremely systematic and regular. It is good at representing all the phonemes and having a very systematic romanization that someone already literate in another language can learn in roughly a few weeks and be able to read anything without guesswork. The choice of /x/ or /qi/ could be considered poor choices, but "why not ch?" because /ch/ is already being used for another phoneme? It can't be used for both. They probably could have found letters that were more obvious to native English speakers, but are those necessarily going to be better for native speakers of other languages? Are they going to be any better for native Chinese speakers? zh, ch, sh, are the retroflex versions of z, c, and s. This is why they did it, any of those with an /h/ after indicates it's a retroflex, and this choice helps show that these sounds are very closely related to each other with one single difference (being retroflex). quote:Why does "c" represent /ts/ when it could have just been written as a simple goddamn "ts"? Why do "sh*" and "ch*" almost make sense, except when followed by an "i", at which point they sound like shur and chur? See above, if you did /ts/ then the retroflex (ch) would have to be /tsch/, which isn't inherently bad but it's a lot of consonants clustered together. The "i" thing is just your native language biasing you; there is no "ur," /shi/ is simply the exactly same thing as /si/ but with the tongue in retroflex position. Lips and teeth and voicing etc. are all exactly the same between the two sounds. It's the exact same difference between /su/ and /shu/, you think they should use another confusing set of letters just because native English speakers think it sounds like "ur"? One dumb thing Pinyin did do is make certain unnecessary exceptions, for instance /ui/ --> /wei/, and /i/ --> /yi/. In most situations it didn't make weird letter changes to make it more "obvious" what it sounded like, but in very certain cases it did do this.
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Devils Affricate posted:Wade-Giles is bad but Pinyin is hardly better. Why does "q" represent /tɕʰ/ when they could have just written "ch", which is much closer? Why does "x" represent /ɕ/ when they could have just written "sh", which is much closer? Why does "c" represent /ts/ when it could have just been written as a simple goddamn "ts"? Why do "sh*" and "ch*" almost make sense, except when followed by an "i", at which point they sound like shur and chur? There are more but you get the point. no
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Devils Affricate posted:Wade-Giles is bad but Pinyin is hardly better. Why does "q" represent /tɕʰ/ when they could have just written "ch", which is much closer? Why does "x" represent /ɕ/ when they could have just written "sh", which is much closer? Why does "c" represent /ts/ when it could have just been written as a simple goddamn "ts"? Why do "sh*" and "ch*" almost make sense, except when followed by an "i", at which point they sound like shur and chur? There are more but you get the point. You're under the misconception Hanyu Pinyin was designed as both a romanization system and a pronunciation tool specifically for English speaking westerners when it is neither. e: Yale Romanization actually was designed specifically to get English speakers to pronounce Mandarin properly and is way better for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Mandarin Mandarin classes at Yale still use it, and I've heard it works pretty well until you actually encounter Pinyin when typing/in China/etc... and have no idea what any of it means. Ailumao fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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The old Korean lady in my class has a ziplock bag of stale cornflakes and is giving them out one at a time to people who are too awkward to say no thanks.
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Magna Kaser posted:e: Yale Romanization actually was designed specifically to get English speakers to pronounce Mandarin properly and is way better for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Mandarin I followed this to the Yale Korean system and it looks like total garbage. The consonants are off somewhat but I can't figure out what the gently caress is going on with the vowels. The example in there of writing zhishi as jrshr makes sense, that is a lot closer if you read it without knowing anything.
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I always love it when people say 'b-b-b-but j/q/x doesn't make that sound!' And it's like 'well yeah, in English maybe. In pinyin it makes the sound that it makes there.'
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But also jyutping 4 lyf
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I'm on vacation in Arizona and went to Antelope Canyon where I was stuck in the canyon with a tour bus full of rich mainlanders. Apparently Louis Vuitton and Armani suits are the proper apparel for canyoneering. It was windy in the canyon and there was a lot of blown sand, so every time the wind gusted I was treated to a symphony of hacking and spitting. Only a few were wearing face masks, but one guy was wearing a face mask improvised from a pair of women's panties.
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