The above title is a link to my Wordpress article. I’ve found that Wordpress is a lot better about embedding images into the text itself than tumblr is, and my posts are likely to feature a lot of photography. I’ll still post links here, though!
中文版也有，请揿此链接。
Since I’m so curious about linguistics, I was google-ing “Prestige Dialects”, even though I’ve read a lot about the subject before. I came across this link.
I have no idea what accent I speak with in Spanish (I would assume it is a mix of Puerto Rican and Rioplatense [but I don’t use vos] since my freshman/sophomore year teacher was Puerto Rican and my junior/senior year teacher lived in Uruguay and is married to an Uruguayan), but I found the Chinese part very true.
Although Standard Mandarin (Pu Tong Hua) is the “prestige” dialect, and people who speak it properly are seen as highly educated, it is quite jarring to people in the south. People in the South generally have softer and more rounded features in their language. The way upper class people speak Pu Tong Hua in Shanghai has very little regional accent, yet removes the harshness of Northern accents. Since the South is much more economically and financially advanced, having a Shanghai accent is probably more advantageous.
Beijing accents are, like I said, harsher and more grating on southern ears. Heavy intonation and very enunciated consonants are common. Also, “er yin”, which is the tendency to add a rhotic “-r” to the end of words, is a feature unique to the north. In general, Beijing accents sound very backwards and country-style to people in the South.
Now you know.
这本博客快要复活啦！请大家再耐心一点，这星期保证写一片文章。
请您们瞄一下博客主页上的介绍。我改博客的主题了。
I’m reviving the blog soon! Please just be patient for a little more; I promise there will be a new post this week.
Please read the description at the top of the blog page; I’ve reconsidered the focus of the blog.
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This Looks Shopped of the Day: A few days ago, a frequenter of China’s immensely popular Tianya Club Internet forum visited the official government website of Huili County, where they spotted a poorly shopped photo of three county leaders supposedly inspecting a freshly paved road.
The club member quickly posted the photo to Tianya under the headline “Too fake: the propaganda photo for our county,” excoriating the county for having “the nerve to put this on the home page” when “[e]ven a rank amateur like myself can tell that this was a PhotoShop job.”
Other users latched on to the post, and soon transformed “The Three Levitating Government Officials” into a full-fledged meme (see a few examples below).
According to the county’s publicity department director Zhang Yongzhi, the leaders did actually visit the road in question, but a government employee thought the background “did not look very good” and decided to superimpose the officials onto a more flattering one. EastSouthWestNorth reports that the local government removed the shopped photo along with “all relevant information,” and “reprimanded the worker” who handled it.
[eswn / boingboing.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnkvau1k2g1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
This Looks Shopped of the Day: A few days ago, a frequenter of China’s immensely popular Tianya Club Internet forum visited the official government website of Huili County, where they spotted a poorly shopped photo of three county leaders supposedly inspecting a freshly paved road.
The club member quickly posted the photo to Tianya under the headline “Too fake: the propaganda photo for our county,” excoriating the county for having “the nerve to put this on the home page” when “[e]ven a rank amateur like myself can tell that this was a PhotoShop job.”
Other users latched on to the post, and soon transformed “The Three Levitating Government Officials” into a full-fledged meme (see a few examples below).
According to the county’s publicity department director Zhang Yongzhi, the leaders did actually visit the road in question, but a government employee thought the background “did not look very good” and decided to superimpose the officials onto a more flattering one. EastSouthWestNorth reports that the local government removed the shopped photo along with “all relevant information,” and “reprimanded the worker” who handled it.
[eswn / boingboing.]
(via d2fang)
说事实，美国人要挤上公交比中国人粗鲁多了。只是很少需要挤而已。
I think that the fact that a Chinese and a Japanese market can work together is a great step forward for China’s international relations, considering the strong enmity that nationals of those two countries may feel for each other. However, this deal seems to be exclusive within Japan, and does nothing for Japan to break into the Chinese market.
一家中国和一家日本公司可以这样合作标志中国的外交关系开始开放一些了。可是此合约貌似还是造福联想、对日本电气帮组并不大。
胡锦涛从美国回来带礼物
“可是。。。爸，这些都是中国产的。”
“的确是国产，可是在美国买便宜多了！”
Unfortunately for the United States, it still hasn’t fully embraced renewable energies due to the special interest groups (oil companies) that hinder subsidies for it and claiming that it will never be economically viable without government support. For those who agree with them, here is an infographic proving otherwise.
现在损害美国的经济稳定是它仍然没有完全接收可再生能源，由于美国的特殊利益集团 (石油公司)发表这类的能源没有政府补贴是活不下去的。如果你跟他们有一样的想法， 请看一下此图表。中国有很好的理由来帮助欧洲 - 它是中国最大的出口市场和科技的重要来源。购买欧联债券有利于中国的重大市场，停止欧元这将使中国的出口商品更昂贵，在保护中欧元计价的储备资产和多样化中远离美元下滑。China has good reason to help Europe, its biggest export market and an important source of technology and know-how. Buying European bonds helps to shore up China’s vital market, stop the slide of the euro that would make China’s exports more expensive, protect Chinese euro-denominated assets and diversify Chinese reserves away from dollars.
