Archive for the ‘Blog Updates’ Category
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
I've done a little remodeling on this blog (way overdue, I know). I hope you like the new design. The changes include:
Added some themed pages such as Where to Start, Most Discussed, and Top Picks.
Changed color scheme and put side bar on the right (both were automatic with ...
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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
I just switched web servers and it seems everything got transfered over alright except for anyone who had subscribed to receive notifications when new comments were left on specific articles. I'm afraid if you'd like to receive comments notifications, you'll have to go back to the article you're interested ...
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Talking about family members in Chinese is very complicated due to the Confucian emphasis on relationships and hierarchy. (See also Mates, Terms of Endearment, and Addressing Strangers).
For example, the English word "cousin" has 8 different Chinese translations depending on mother's side or father's side, older or younger, boy or girl. ...
Posted in Vocabulary | 31 Comments »
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
(I don't know why the "hǎo 好" in the title looks dumb in Internet Explorer...sorry)
Well, for whatever reason, the blog is back up in China. So please destroy any links to the pirated pkblogs.com version (as I have done).
Here's some appropriate vocabulary to celebrate with:
hǎo xiāoxi 好消息= good news
huài xiāoxi ...
Posted in Blog Updates | 7 Comments »
Monday, October 30th, 2006
If you're able to read this you should be as glad as I am. It seems that China has, for whatever reason, blocked access to all blogger/blogspot blogs. I think the email updates should still be going out. But if you're in mainland China (I still haven't heard from that ...
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