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Best headline goof-up I've seen in quite some time:

Funds for Rural Roads on TruckI'm imagining someone in an outfit similar to a postal uniform sitting in the bed of a pickup truck filled with money. As the truck pulls up to each town, he tosses a stack of bills like the morning paper onto the doorstep of each municipal office ( Read more... )

Back from my weeklong vacation, I present to you today's funniest language miscalculation. Also, it's a terribly entertaining article. Bonus points (redeemable for flattering remarks and/or professions of my love for you) go to the first person to spot the most blatant English "oops" in the article:

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Happy Year of the Pig! Chunjie (Spring Festival) has been rather uneventful around here, but in a good way. It's nice to have a week just to be lazy. On Lunar New Year's Eve (or Erev Chunjie, as I like to call it) I went to Houhai lake with Sean and his friend Eli. Eventually we met up with Amelia, Daniel, and Phillipe (new friends I've met ( Read more... )

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My favorite sentence so far at work today:

"It is a typical autumn weather during Bailu period, when wide gooses begin to emigrate to the south and birds start to stock food for the long winter time."

The narrow gooses give them a head start, just to be fair.

Today's official word-I-thought-was-invented-by-a-Chinese-coworker-but-turns-out-is-real, brought to you by The 24 Solar Terms:

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At first I was a bit skeptical of taking a group tour. Visions of matching yellow hats, following a flag on a pole, and a woman carrying a loudspeaker kept making me question my sanity. There was also the lingering fear of being driven to the middle of nowhere, relieved of my personal belongs, and left on the side of an icy road. I know, I'm a ( Read more... )

I went to the old village and ice festival on Saturday. I watched a million movies in my pajamas on Sunday. I started my new job on Monday. I am exhausted but pleased. I will tell you all about it in detail (except movie pajama day, I think that's pretty much covered) when I have a bit more energy and free time ( Read more... )

Hello all! Sorry I haven't posted for a long time, but for once it's actually beyond my control. That's right folks, an act of nature has kept me from you. You may not have heard much about it on American news, but the last week in December there was a massive earthquake off the coast of Taiwan. I don't usually think much about Taiwan. It's ( Read more... )