Eau, my answers in red. Seeing as English isn't your mother tongue I think you're doing very, very well.Eau2011 wrote: Vaucluse, I'm not a native English speaker, can you please tell me if you people often use the word "smell"? What a coincidence here, "smell" from two different persons.
Manthink wrote:Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
I maybe a little sensitive but I smell a tint of
sinophobia here...
'Smell', in this context means 'find'. In other words he thinks that some people are sinophobes.
In anderen Worten glaubt unser Freundchen das es hier Leute gibt die Chinesen nicht moegen . . . ausserdem = englisch ist auch nicht meine Muttersprache, dafuer kann man andere doch ab und zu mal irrefuehren.![]()
I gather some may take a little longer to adjustt to this paradigm shifttyianchang wrote: I can categorically say you needn't have any fear of me. I don't make it a point to remember what goes on in the forum. As for the national security, lol, that's really so funny I can smell something!
'Smell' in Auntie Changster's sentence simply doesn't mean anything as it doesn't make sense and is used incorrectly
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'nuff said
'nuff said

No, Eau. Someone previously banned who comes back under a new username ('nick'), and starts all over again.Eau2011 wrote:But how can that be, guys?
I guess Anne is almost my mom's age? almost 60 years old?![]()
Will she have a 18 years old brother?
People don't often turn up here and within their first few posts start telling people how to behave. It is a classic early-warning sign.
Grab a glass of wine, sit back and enjoy the show that is probably going to unfold in due course

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If you haven't figured it out already, That's just what I'm doing. It's going to be a interesting 3 Act Play, and it "smells" like a tour to me. We'll see.JR8 wrote: Grab a glass of wine, sit back and enjoy the show that is probably going to unfold in due course

SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
Ahhh....I unserstand.sundaymorningstaple wrote:If you haven't figured it out already, That's just what I'm doing. It's going to be a interesting 3 Act Play, and it "smells" like a tour to me. We'll see.JR8 wrote: Grab a glass of wine, sit back and enjoy the show that is probably going to unfold in due course

How naiv I was.

Deep appology and fully ashamed to get mad yesterday.


Vielen Dank fuer deine Erklaerung!Vaucluse wrote:Eau, my answers in red. Seeing as English isn't your mother tongue I think you're doing very, very well.Eau2011 wrote: Vaucluse, I'm not a native English speaker, can you please tell me if you people often use the word "smell"? What a coincidence here, "smell" from two different persons.
Manthink wrote:Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
I maybe a little sensitive but I smell a tint of
sinophobia here...
'Smell', in this context means 'find'. In other words he thinks that some people are sinophobes.
In anderen Worten glaubt unser Freundchen das es hier Leute gibt die Chinesen nicht moegen . . . ausserdem = englisch ist auch nicht meine Muttersprache, dafuer kann man andere doch ab und zu mal irrefuehren.![]()
I gather some may take a little longer to adjustt to this paradigm shifttyianchang wrote: I can categorically say you needn't have any fear of me. I don't make it a point to remember what goes on in the forum. As for the national security, lol, that's really so funny I can smell something!
'Smell' in Auntie Changster's sentence simply doesn't mean anything as it doesn't make sense and is used incorrectly
Eau, my answers in red. Seeing as English isn't your mother tongue I think you're doing very, very well.

Ich wollte eigentlich fragen, ob ein Muttersprachler oeftes das Wort "smell" benutzt. Es ist halt ein bisschen merkwuerdig, dass nur die beide das Wort benutzen, da ich bei anderen Englischsprachlern das Wort in Posts fast gar nichts gesehen habe. In diesem Sinne, I also have smelled something.

Ich habe nur ein gutes Gedaechtnis,


Ich habe mich von Anfang an getaeuscht. Ich dachte, du waerst entweder ein Amerikaner oder ein Aussie.

Bin von dir sehr begeistert, wie du in einer Fremdsprache sehr gut mit anderen debattierst... Hoffe, dass ich irgendwann auch das gut hinkriegen kann.

Weiter so!

sundaymorningstaple wrote:If you haven't figured it out already, That's just what I'm doing. It's going to be a interesting 3 Act Play, and it "smells" like a tour to me. We'll see.JR8 wrote: Grab a glass of wine, sit back and enjoy the show that is probably going to unfold in due course
Indeedy.
A classic Shakespearian tragedy.
Or resurrecting a dead soul by borrowing a corpse..JR8 wrote:sundaymorningstaple wrote:If you haven't figured it out already, That's just what I'm doing. It's going to be a interesting 3 Act Play, and it "smells" like a tour to me. We'll see.JR8 wrote: Grab a glass of wine, sit back and enjoy the show that is probably going to unfold in due course
Indeedy.
A classic Shakespearian tragedy.

A chance which I should never miss. I don't need to go to London to watch Shakespeare's play.

Eau,Eau2011 wrote:They may have more idea about something else which you may not have. Asia, including Russian part, Turkish part, well, I wonder if you know more.Manthink wrote:I am astonished with those (assuming most of u here) who had lived abroad and well travelled has little idea what ethnicity, language, culture and religion meant in Asia..
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What did Confucius say?
子曰:“由,诲女,知之乎?知之为知之,不知为不知,是知也"
I am glad to see that you quote the saying of confucius, i think in modern china, no much people know very well about the china traditional culture, for exapmle, 《论语》,as a basic requirement for all student in ancient, but now, even after Master Degree study, i am sure quite a lot are not familiar with 《论语》, include me.
I tried to learn 《论语》by myself, but just find it not so easy, maybe finishe half of it, hehe.
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