Subj : Re: HOLY CRAP! To : alt.tv.farscape From : Nick Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 13:19:06 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Finnigann wrote: > To: weirdwolf > -=> weirdwolf wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=- > > we> From Newsgroup: > alt.tv.farscape > > we> "Finnigann" wrote in > we> news:4331CEB3.3097.farscape@bnb.synchro.net: > >> To: weirdwolf >> -=> 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? >> > > we> Dunno can you play mahjong now? > we> Ted > > Yes... but will this be an aide? I play better with tiles with nude > women on them (just a supposition, I like nude women to fit into > whatever I'm doing) > > I used to have a tile creator ... someplace... around here... damn it > > I made tiles with IBM OS2 soda cans, just whatever was lying around > on the (real) desktop. OS2 Rocked. .