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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6580 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 545 of 740 24 January 2012 at 7:45am | IP Logged |
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What did he say? Which news article? Please link!
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| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5957 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 546 of 740 24 January 2012 at 7:06pm | IP Logged |
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Here's the English news story.... http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/confucius-a ncestor-welcomes-year-of-dragon-with-dog-insults-for-hong-ko ng/2012/01/22/gIQAh2g4IQ_story.html
Here's a video of his inflammatory comments.... http://shanghaiist.com/2012/01/20/kong-qingdong-hk-bastards- dogs.php That page has a link to a video of the HK MRT incident though be aware it's the second of 2 videos. I'm at work right now and cannot bring up youtube to find the link for the part 1 video.....will post that and the University of Hong Kong survey link when I get home. He also got Singaporeans riled up.... http://news.insing.com/tabloid/prc-lecturer-insults-s-porean s-on-talk-show/id-222a3f00 Edited by Snowflake on 25 January 2012 at 3:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5957 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 547 of 740 25 January 2012 at 3:03am | IP Logged |
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The University of Hong Kong survey information is at http://hkupop.hku.hk/english/release/release884.html .
Part 1 of the MRT quarrel video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=D-hJMS oEGOk It's entitled "2012-01-15 火車內罵戰 香港人大戰大陸人 Part 1 [1/2]". The youtube part 2 link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7xRXb0rL3Y&feature=mfu_in_or der&list=UL . 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6580 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 548 of 740 25 January 2012 at 6:47am | IP Logged |
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Thanks, Snowflake! Wow, that guy really didn't hold back, huh? I won't spam your log with my opinions; suffice to say I'm with the Hong Kongers on this one. The survey looks pretty interesting, too, so thanks for that link!
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| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5957 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 549 of 740 28 January 2012 at 8:25pm | IP Logged |
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Ari, no problem. BTW, my Xi'an born, Beijing raised tutor felt that the mainland tourists should have observed the local rules. She worked as a tour guide overseas and commented that visiting mainlanders often did not observe the local customs and rules, even when there were clearly posted signs. Her examples were mainlanders visiting Australia. She attributed the behavior, in part, to having money.
On that note, I've been seeing deliberate things being done here by the local Chinese churches to promote unity. Even when one group is overwhelming dominate, they are working to make the others feel included. Edited by Snowflake on 28 January 2012 at 9:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5957 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 550 of 740 28 January 2012 at 8:28pm | IP Logged |
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I've been watching a mainland drama, that some people might be interested in. The setting is current society. It shows quite a bit of tradition and traditional thinking. I was surprized...thought most of these things were no longer practiced in the mainland. It's called 租个女友回家过年 and can be seen at
http://www.viki.com/channels/1185-rent-a-girlfriend-back-hom e-for-new-year/videos . There are subtitles available in several languages. It's a romantic comedy and probably would be considered a chick flick. I told my tutor about it. She indicated that an unmarried 30+ year old man hiring someone to temporarily pose as his girlfriend, to bring home to his family at New Years, is common enough. She seemed to think that it's done more often by men without much money. Edited by Snowflake on 28 January 2012 at 9:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5171 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written) | Message 551 of 740 29 January 2012 at 4:58am | IP Logged |
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Seems to be a growing level of resentment towards Mainlanders in HK. There was an
incident at D&G in HK quite recently. HKers were not allowed to take pictures at D&G but the Mainlanders were. That didn't sit too well with the HKers for obvious reasons. This reminds me of a (hilarious) video from a few years back. Bus confrontation 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5957 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 552 of 740 01 February 2012 at 3:11am | IP Logged |
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Ah the joy of learning a language....I had been confused about what to call a tangerine. It goes back to a conversation with my overseas Taiwanese chat partner, probably two years ago. He gave a word for tangerine and said that they are larger than oranges. Well here, oranges are much larger than tangerines. So for the longest time I wasn't sure what the correct words were for those. The word for orange straightened itself out probably a year ago. Fast forward to now. We're still in the Chinese New Year celebration period so tangerines are pretty much everywhere. Here are the words that my friends use for tangerine.
桔子 júzi, from the Taiwanese woman at work 柑 gān, from the Malaysian guy at work 柑橘 gānjú, from my Beijing raised tutor 柳丁 liǔdīng, from a friend who is from the Shanghai area Edited by Snowflake on 01 February 2012 at 3:11am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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