Subj : Re: HOLY CRAP! To : weirdwolf From : Finnigann Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 18:00:00 -=> weirdwolf wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=- we> From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape we> Nick wrote in we> news:Xns96D84D9FDC02Fndtcm@204.153.244.170: > Jim Larson wrote: > >> weirdwolf wrote: >> >>> Jim Larson wrote in >>> news:Xns96D7AAA33CD743v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >>> >>>> weirdwolf wrote: >>>> >>>>> Jim Larson wrote in >>>>> news:Xns96D7A60C6A75F3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >>>>> >>>>>> weirdwolf wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I went to my first Mandarin lesson tonight. >>>>>>> I think my brain has melted and is running out of my nose..... >>>>>> >>>>>> Ni hau! >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Wo hen hao xiexie! >>>>> Blergh I want a v over certain letters but all I can find is ^ >>>>> Ted >>>>> >>>> >>>> By the way, can you hear differences in tone? >>>> >>> >>> When the teacher talked slowly I could just about manage it. I found >>> it interesting that she was saying that when in certain words there >>> are repeating syllables with the same tonal sounds that they might >>> either be pronounced with a different tonal stress or not at all. >> >> I had a Chinese acquaintance try it out on me for about 10 minutes. I >> couldn't really get it. >> >> (Of course, he mentioned that in Cantonese they have 9 tones instead >> of 4, and the average Mandarin speaker has about as much success >> distinguishing those as I had with Mandarin. Made me feel less >> stupid.) >> > > I used to work with a guy who told me he could teach me to read > chinese in about 3 weeks. I am waaaay dumber than that. we> It's not as hard as it looks, if you can learn some of the radicals, we> sort of root words like for example in English,(well latin,) you know we> that sub means beneath. So when you see the word for sub combined with we> marine you know that it means beneath the water. The same thing works we> for some Japanese, they have three alphabet systems, the one we are we> talking about is the one they got from the Chinese. When you see the we> pictogram for wood, boku, it looks like a little tree, if you see three we> trees together in a triangle then you have the pictogram for we> forest,shin. we> I've forgotten most of the ones I knew because of lack of practise and we> I could only really read to the level of a junior school kid, say grade we> 6. we> The teacher told us last night that if you can read say 2,500 symbols we> you can read 96% of an average newspaper. You could hear the sound of 9 we> rectums collectively tightening. That was the most relaxed I was all we> night. Will this help me play Mahjong? ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ ³ "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, ³ in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." ³ - Carl Sagan ³ .... JESUS SAVES!...Passes to Jordan...Who JAMS it home! --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.46 .