Timely Snow

I’m trying to coordinate data collection on two projects that use shared video equipment and have different, overlapping sets of people participating.

Google calendar may be the way to do it, and as part of that effort, I’m trying to embed that calendar on this page…

Beijing Sounds looks to be a very neat blog, at least going by this discussion of érhuàyīn 儿化音, the retroflexed final “r” that’s added to the end of words in the Beijing dialect.

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One of my favorite Chinese chengyu is quoted above. In pinyin, it’s “sai4 weng1 shi1 ma3, yan1 zhi1 fei1 fu2” or “when the old man on the border lost a horse, who could tell that it was a blessing?”

It was cited at the end of the movie, Charlie Wilson’s War, in a somewhat simplified form, [...]

(and note that this has nothing to do with our own dog, who’s on her last legs, but teetering along on them with remarkable fortitude). When Bill Clinton was first running for President, he asserted that he would stick with New Hampshirites (?) “until the last dog died.” I was never sure what the meant [...]

Americans have a reputation for being optimistic. Sometimes things happen that seem to justify that faith.

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