(Something I drafted on 5 February 2008. Trying to get rid of all my drafts by either deleting them or publishing them. I suppose this was something I wrote in point form after returning to Singapore having spent about 4 months in Canada and the States, thinking I’ll somehow compose a fuller piece another day, [...]
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We started working
March 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Language, MissY, Taking in; on; and to Shanghai (or China in general), Work Life
Probably a useless thought, but I’m wondering if my job position is “Junior Content Specialist Editor”, am I supposed to be a “content specialist” or a “specialist editor”. Do they mean the same thing? Anyways. So it’s been a week at the office. What’s my take on the job? I got to do some semi-creative [...]
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Embarrassing Languages
February 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Fudan, Language, Singapore
Singaporeans are mocked, laughed at, and made fun of because of our reputation with our language(s). Can’t blame foreigners or ourselves for doing so because these exist: (found this powerful image at STOMP‘s website, under “Friends of Stomp”) For the majority of Singaporeans, being Chinese, we pretty much have a confused mother tongue, or a [...]
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English Chinese or Chinese English
November 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Language, Taking in; on; and to Shanghai (or China in general)
While doing my folklore module term paper, I came across some English-pronunciation-influenced Chinese, or Chinese pronunciation of English: “那摩温”: number one “司冒而”: small “德律风”: telephone “大拉斯”: dollars “康姆”: come “谷”: go “吞的福”: twenty four “也司”: yes “扑铁秃”: potato I’m actually doing a paper on food and festival culture but just thought this is interesting. Taken [...]
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Lost without translation
November 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Language, MissY
As some of you already know, I’m picking up some Korean as we go along, but my Korean vocabulary is somewhere around a four-year-old and my grammar probably… a two-year-old? Do they start talking at two? So today we were having a nice sam gyup sal (BBQ pork belly) dinner at a friend’s place and [...]
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Of Names and Nature of Business
September 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Language, Singapore, Work Life
During my summer vacation back on the sunny island I worked for a brief period of time at a certain foreign bank. While for most of it I was soaking in monotony, there were instances that made me chuckle, or perhaps I seeked laughable instances so that I can entertain myself. I was looking at [...]
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Quite cool ad
September 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Language, Taking in; on; and to Shanghai (or China in general)
Don’t judge till you read the end! P/T Englihs Editer Living style media and the adevrtising companies seeks for Some times working some times resting foreigner language Editer needs. The Must to have things: 1. The original born English speaking one 2. To be more than 23 years living time 3. The one can rely, [...]
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Hangul rap (Korean alphabet rap)
July 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Language
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha And why am I torturing myself so?
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Learning German in Chinese
March 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Campus Life, Fudan, Language
From my Chinese textbook 《Hochschuldeutsch (1)》 and UBC textbook for German “Treffpunkt Deutsch” (pp 9) respectively: ch 读作[ç]，为清辅音，读音与汉语“xi”的声母“x”相似，但发[ç]时嘴张得较大，舌尖向下接近下门齿，嘴角向后咧。ch 在 e, i, ei, eu, äu, ä, ö, ü 和所有辅音后面均发[ç]。 German ch After i and e, the sound represented by ch is pronounced like a loudly whispered h in huge. (this is so damn straightforward) ch 在 [...]
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