Chinese (wasUSAGE: Count and mass nouns)
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 15, 2004, 22:13 |
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In a message dated 2004:01:15 08:39:22 AM, Peter.Bleackley@RD.BBC.CO.UK
writes:
>Staving John Cowan:
>
>>Definitely. (And if any culture on earth actually eats elephant, it's
>>probably the Chinese: "We eat anything that moves except trains and
planes.")
>
>The nearest Chinese equivalent to "squeamish" is probably "gwailo".
ROTFLMAO... I'll hafta ask my relatives (on this Chang Side, not the Wong
Side, of course).
The older generation of Changs from Malaysia will prob'ly laugh most
heartily too... havin' had their fill of British Colonials who complained about
the Chang family's inordinate taste in cuisine, i.e. durian fruit.
Grandfather was a hospital triage doctor under the British. Every durian
season he'd go AWOL off in the jungle areas with the Senoi tribes people...
first few times the Limeys sent police to retrieve him, but after a few more
seasons they gave up (mosta time they couldn't even find him ::tip o' the hat to
the Senoi::)...
They, the Tall Pommies, the Brits, insisted he not bring any durians onto
the wards as it's "pungent odour may cause systemic shock and irreparable
harm to the British and Allied soldiery in recovery" ...ROTFLMAO
A friend of mine recently literally kicked me outta his car cuz I had
just drunk& eaten a Durian Pearl Drink... hadta walk home... thru nasty-ass
gangbanger turf. I am rather certain I was safe anyways ;) ...
> I'm going to Chinatown for Chinese New Year soon.
For the whole week plus? ;)
[NOTE: Chinese New Years proper is 9 days long...
aren't we Chinese party-animals so lucky?]
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[Who does not know that in this world oh monkey, thy name is one which
liberates one out of all problems].
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