Ok so it is a rainy day and I haven't updated in a while so again another spurt of anecdotal and current musings goodness. Low in calories
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As a random side note, some linguists claim that Chinese has no underlying vowels, and that the only reason they exist is because they manifest from the consonants.
I indeed will. One of the appendixes in the source book is 'how to talk like a hick' and another is 'how to swear up a storm in Chinese'.
Interestingly enough while there is a wide range of pejorative statements to make they seem rather preoccupied with primate anal fissures. I don't know if that is because it is considered funny, or if a lot of Chinese vulgarity is derivative of comparing someone to the dried dung of a rabid baboon.
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As a random side note, some linguists claim that Chinese has no underlying vowels, and that the only reason they exist is because they manifest from the consonants.
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Interestingly enough while there is a wide range of pejorative statements to make they seem rather preoccupied with primate anal fissures. I don't know if that is because it is considered funny, or if a lot of Chinese vulgarity is derivative of comparing someone to the dried dung of a rabid baboon.
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