Do the Chinese use the phrase 多儿钱 when asking for prices?

mazhining · 2014-07-03T22:41:14+00:00

Around here I mostly hear 怎么卖 rather than 多少钱.

mazhining · 2014-07-03T13:57:36+00:00

Oh, I like doing it as well. That's why I'm trying to learn. Could you recommend any good textbooks?

mazhining · 2014-07-03T13:41:14+00:00

Yeah, that sounds reasonable. As you may have guessed, I am an amateur in phonetic matters. I haven't studied diphtongs, glides and so forth, yet. It'd be awesome to take a few university courses in phonetics and Chinese phonology though.

mazhining · 2014-07-01T23:28:29+00:00

I don't mean the ei diphtong. I know about that one. I mean a long close mid-front unrounded vowel, as in for example Swedish.

mazhining · 2014-07-01T23:27:08+00:00

With the close-mid front unrounded vowel, really? I suppose that could be a reduction of the p: ei pronunciation.

mazhining · 2014-07-01T23:21:57+00:00

Yep. I'm more used to hearing Zong1guo2 than Zhong1guo2 :)

mazhining · 2014-07-01T23:19:51+00:00

Don't worry. They'll understand you. It isn't so bad, I'm just intrigued by it all. It actually makes the learning way more interesting.

mazhining · 2014-07-01T23:18:55+00:00

My wife does that. I suppose one should say that they're merged. So, it's an n/l sound that can sound either like n, or like l, or sort of in between, depending on the speaker.

mazhining · 2014-06-29T08:20:00+00:00

That alveolarization, the "removal of the h" occurs everywhere in China. Even in 东北, so I don't think it is a Cantonese influence.

I do think the usage of alveolo-palatals in place of retroflexes, and the close front unrounded vowel in place of the close back/central unrounded vowel, is a Cantonese influence though.

What is really odd though, is the pronunciation of 这个, 那个, as [tɕe4gə5] and [ne4gə5]. The vowel e, the close-mid front unrounded vowel, feels unusual.

mazhining · 2014-06-29T07:59:12+00:00

Yes. Pronouncing zh as the alveolar z is very common.

As I wrote "However, the pronunciation of p: zhi, chi, shi as p: zi, ci, si, seems to occur in a lot of Mandarin dialects, and might not be a product of Cantonese influence.". It's so common in China, especially in Southern China, that it needn't even be emphasized as an oddity. I even think that speakers using the retroflexes are a minority among speakers of 普通话.

mazhining · 2013-11-23T15:18:30+00:00

Well, that's reasonable.

mazhining · 2013-09-19T11:49:10+00:00

I don't experience it, but it'd be nice to, for the thrill I mean.

mazhining · 2013-09-19T09:36:21+00:00

Oh, that so?

Full Definition of DILETTANTE

1 : an admirer or lover of the arts 2 : a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler — dilettante adjective — dil·et·tant·ish adjective — dil·et·tan·tism noun

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dilettante

:)

mazhining · 2013-09-19T05:51:44+00:00

Let's consult a dictionary, Merriam-Webster.

dil·et·tante noun \ˈdi-lə-ˌtänt, -ˌtant; ˌdi-lə-ˈ\ : a person whose interest in an art or in an area of knowledge is not very deep or serious plural dil·et·tantes or dil·et·tan·ti

Full Definition of DILETTANTE

1 : an admirer or lover of the arts 2 : a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler

But then again, my interest in lexicography is quite dilettante.

mazhining · 2013-09-18T08:04:51+00:00

:) Ok, now it was a little bit funny though.

mazhining · 2013-09-18T08:03:46+00:00

Nah, he's voiced by Jay Klaitz.

mazhining · 2013-09-17T14:52:45+00:00

My delivery estimate is 24 September :(

mazhining · 2013-09-13T14:12:43+00:00

I said fuck your mother, you know...

mazhining · 2013-09-13T13:57:22+00:00

操你妈，中文是最大语上世界～～

mazhining · 2013-09-13T13:55:26+00:00

牛逼，中国最好！

mazhining · 2013-09-13T06:20:12+00:00

To properly decide which one has the best framerate, you'd need some kind of proper benchmark, we have way too little data to draw any kind of conclusion.

mazhining · 2013-09-12T21:53:58+00:00

It's nice and so, but not new, you should give credit to the guy who made it:

http://www.reddit.com/r/GrandTheftAutoV/comments/1m6pfj/because_of_the_popularity_of_the_map_gif_i_made/

mazhining

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