Thread: a boy come from china

maybe Fai does not understand simplifed chinese..

Yeah. I too am more into complicated chinese.

Originally Posted by Xterria

My boyfriend's Chinese and he's teaching me Mandarin and Kantonese, I really want to be fluent in them, because come on people, have you seen not only the statistics, but the Chinese National Day Parade '99 and '09? These guys are going to take us the hell over. He's right in front of me on his mac, studying for his med school classes, and I have to take speed to take in the amount of knowledge he does and be able to spit it out on paper when asked. Bastards putting me out of a job. :P
'99 parade: YouTube - Chinese Military Parade

Anyways, "NeeHow", luoyangke

"NeeHow"? You mean that "hello" ? it is "你好" in chinese.

Somehow I just don't feel threatened by a country that still has famines and uses primitive language features like pictographs.

Originally Posted by abachler

Somehow I just don't feel threatened by a country that still has famines and uses primitive language features like pictographs.

Chinese...primitive? What a shallow and arrogant POW, especially considering the glaring simplicity of your own native language compared to chinese!

Originally Posted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language#Written_Chinese

Chinese characters evolved over time from earlier forms of hieroglyphs. The idea that all Chinese characters are either pictographs or ideographs is an erroneous one: most characters contain phonetic parts, and are composites of phonetic components and semantic radicals. Only the simplest characters, such as ren 人 (human), ri 日 (sun), shan 山 (mountain), shui 水 (water), may be wholly pictorial in origin. In 100 CE, the famed scholar Xǚ Shèn in the Hàn Dynasty classified characters into six categories, namely pictographs, simple ideographs, compound ideographs, phonetic loans, phonetic compounds and derivative characters. Of these, only 4% were categorized as pictographs, and 80–90% as phonetic complexes consisting of a semantic element that indicates meaning, and a phonetic element that indicates the pronunciation. Generally, the phonetic element is more accurate and more important than the semantic one.[citation needed] There are about 214 radicals recognized in the Kangxi Dictionary.

Also, for an American to criticize another country for not taking care of some of their citizens (e.g. famine), is hipocrisy at it's very worst. Clarity comes, first and foremost from looking inwards!

And a bit more inwards.

Originally Posted by cdc.gov

Deaths and Mortality
(Data are for the U.S.)


Number of deaths: 2,426,264
Death rate: 810.4 deaths per 100,000 population
Life expectancy: 77. 7years
Infant Mortality rate: 6.69 deaths per 1,000 live births

Originally Posted by http://english.people.com.cn/english/200109/11/eng20010911_79913.html

In some large cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, the infant mortality rate has dropped to 5.05 per 1,000, a rate mirrored in some of the most medically advanced countries.

Also, consider this, the US is the only western country that still uses capital punishment...something which China is also infamous for.

Compared to many other places in the world, your country is embarassingly primitive and for you to call China primitive just goes to show your ignorance.

Lets not get this thread closed, people...

Well the fact that Asians came with Manga and Anime and Hentai and that style of drawing, just makes me generalize Asians as... Well, something I say WTF about. What I am trying to say is, if a mind can invent such art and such bad comics, how can they work out a goverment and a system and all that ... This just beats me.
Oh and welcome thread-starter, I might not understand your culture, but you are still welcome here

Originally Posted by Akkernight

Well the fact that Asians came with Manga and Anime and Hentai and that style of drawing, just makes me generalize Asians as... Well, something I say WTF about. What I am trying to say is, if a mind can invent such art and such bad comics, how can they work out a goverment and a system and all that ... This just beats me.

Are you sure? Because I could draw a parallel to American Wrestling, Giant Trucks, Reality Shows and Steven Seagall movies and draw the conclusion, from your own admission, that it's a wonder US can survive as a country.

Or... are you going to try to convince me these are somehow different things?...

Don't.

I think the failing economy is a symptom of a larger problem.

Did you just reiterate what I said?