丢失翻译
我只写国语可怕...但我只写英文好.
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
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6 Comments:
I know less than half the characters but I'm getting something
--- (she-) lose (ze) select
(wo) I (zhi) count-pair (zi) character/word-(guo) country (wu) mistake (ke pa) terrible, ... ---- (wo) I (zhi) count-pair (zI) character writing (ying) wise one (wen) character/write ( )female (le) (grammatical)) action over
Pure speculation: along the lines of "your choice: lose my writings, lose my country, keep my writing keep it?
wow. didn't know anyone would attempt to translate. good on ya!
but i used all the (google) tools at my disposal. [hint]
-jm
lol. ah, I can't believe I didn't recognize the word "English"!Looks like I still need some more work on my Chinese too.
I didn't know google had that beta out. Your Chinese ="hen hao" 很好 John.
Sook-Yin Lee, host of CBC's DNTO, has a humorous segment on her radio show called "Lost in Translation". Was thinking of this when I posted my abovementioned hack of a phrase: "I only write Mandarin terrible. . . But I only write good English." I love how it translated that I write good English. Had a good grammar chuckle at that one. But it doesn't take me much to laugh.
A better place to learn Chinese for free, online anyhow: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chinese_%28Mandarin%29
I think what you meant to write was:
我的普通話不行，英語倒很讚．
普通話 is what Chinese would call Mandarin. 很讚 is basically the same as 很好, but is more colloquial.
cool. thanks.
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