The Great Autismo! posted:

Angela Smooth has returned to the upper peninsula in Michigan from Chicago to help her family run their small convenience store. She's immediately shocked at the construction going on and even more thrilled to meet Hu Xiaoyu soon after. However, what she doesn't know is that she has stumbled into a feud between a Japanese and Chinese family that has lasted generations, and Xiaoyu is a bulldozer...

Bulldoze My Backyard by Angel opportunity

angel opportunity posted:

One to drill, eight to stand wide-eyed with their hands clasped behind their backs watching

The Great Autismo! posted:

你中文怎么棒？！

akulanization posted:

This is the PLA not having an integrated command structure before and maybe finally getting one. Yeah there is a significant amount of keeping up with the west with that, but there is a good reason. But don't worry, the PLA is run by party officials and the closest thing to military action they have seen in the last 4 decades was massacring protestors; they'll keep on doing dumb poo poo for a long time to come.

Modest Mao posted:

actually it's really good and sensible and identical to what english did. We talked about this in the last thread. Chinese blows at using phonetics to borrow foreign names or words, and also kinda has the 'everyone should learn our language, not us learn their mongrel tongue' thing historically

English just used foreign words, mostly greek and some latin, for tech, because english knew it was the mongrel tongue. Chinese used words people readily understood.

Telephone = far away sound
電話 ＝ electric words

Aeroplane = flat surface in the air
飛機 ＝ flying machine

electricity = comes from amber
電 ＝ lightning

electrocardiograph = electric heart drawing
心電圖 = heart electricity map

etc

English, especially since it's risen to lingua franca status, has technology words that are based on English roots, like

motion picture
電影 ＝ electric shadow

Cell phone
手機 ＝ hand machine

Computer
電腦 ＝ electric brain

hot tub
熱水浴缸 = hot water bathtub

I sincerely like chinese more for doing that than just saying "sellu pone" or "sakka". Most of the technology composite words are super easy to understand, like hand machine, it's not like english where you have to literally learn greek to understand our technology words. I also like finding out western celebs have different, senseless names in China. Like Elvis is 'Cat King' for some reason, which sounds absolutely nothing like Elvis.

caberham posted:

It's not plagiarism anymore!

On a serious note that's a pretty thorough rant. It's summed in Chinese as 愛國不愛黨 love the country don't love the party

angel opportunity posted:

china

Wanamingo posted:

I wonder how they even managed it at all. Threats? Bribes? Both?

Jeoh posted:

https://www.chinafile.com/features/drinking-northwest-wind

china is hosed

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Why is CY Leung's daughter such a bitch?

angel opportunity posted:

SHUT THE gently caress UP

sincx posted:

Lol that sounds like the dumbest rule ever because literally half of the Chinese bureaucracy would have to resign. Is this a local, provincial, or national rule? Is there a news article on it?

Haier posted:

Does anyone know why the first of May is such a big deal for Chinese and why people get time off work for it in China and why Chinese abroad are doing picnics and celebrating? Is it more like "Spring Festival isn't actually in spring at all and we must use the cursed foreign calendar to celebrate actual spring?"

Sheep-Goats posted:

I like that someone cranked out 100 pages of incoherent poo poo to e-publish it on Amazon as a joke x 4

Darkman Fanpage posted:

And even then they were relying on human wave attacks.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

oh i'm sorry they were "short attacks" where they'd send five man squads who'd get wiped out and then be followed by another five guys and so on.

angel opportunity posted:

"my wristwatch has run out of battery"

sincx posted:

This is interesting. May 6, USAF C-17 at Beijing Airport. People think it's headed to Afghanistan, because there are no high level visits scheduled. But apparently USAF Afghanistan-bound planes that refuel in China usually refuel in Chengdu, so who knows.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Blistex posted:

the real stats on workplace accidents/fatalities in the Chinese construction industry.

Bro Dad posted:

Nobody cares about your sad little inbred fishing island you lonely loving autist

Grand Prize Winner posted:

What would they do if it got into a shooting war with NK?

Cry Havoc posted:

where would you get all the cheap labour to build it

Darkest Auer posted:

Any article that says "artist/superhero Ai Weiwei" is A) objectively wrong and B) total bullshit, no matter what your feelings are about the Chinese government or people.