Comments on: The Significance Of Today, 2013-01-04 http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/the-significance-of-today-2013-01-04/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: RhZ http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/the-significance-of-today-2013-01-04/#comment-215818 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:50:32 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=8796#comment-215818 Uh, yeah whatever.

]]> By: Joe http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/the-significance-of-today-2013-01-04/#comment-215794 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 05:48:12 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=8796#comment-215794 Ha. More like National Prostitution Day. A thinly veiled rewrite of “me love you long time”.

]]> By: Anthony Tao http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/the-significance-of-today-2013-01-04/#comment-215792 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 05:19:12 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=8796#comment-215792 +1, this made me laugh

]]> By: Jonathan Alpart http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/the-significance-of-today-2013-01-04/#comment-215790 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 05:15:09 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=8796#comment-215790 With the Beijing accent, anything can sound like anything:

Observe:

2-0-1-3-1-4:

“Err lnggg errr shrrr errr shrrr”

爱你一生一世:

“Err lnggg errr shrrr errr shrrr”

]]> By: Jive madra http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/the-significance-of-today-2013-01-04/#comment-215777 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:54:43 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=8796#comment-215777 Actually, pardon my laziness, but ye are right… can someone explain how “ling” and “ni” sound the same; ditto “san’ and “shang”.? Please allay my ignorance!

]]> By: Jive madra http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/the-significance-of-today-2013-01-04/#comment-215775 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:42:54 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=8796#comment-215775 Hey, ain’t nothing wrong with a bit of romance; I don’t mind people finding love in things – alphanumerical or otherwise

]]> By: RhZ http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/the-significance-of-today-2013-01-04/#comment-215769 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:52:39 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=8796#comment-215769 So this is the previously twit-bound Alicia? With all the hat-tips in your possession you decided to make the jump to the deep end of the pool?

And this is the inaugural post at BJC? Well, I suppose its suitable. Still, er-ling is equal to ai-nin? That’s a bit of a stretch to me. But whatever.

Heh didn’t realize HK had that too with the buildings skipping numbers. SH is a mish-mash, some buildings have all floors, some have 14 out, some have 13 and 14 both out, a few only 13 out. 24 isn’t a big deal, I have never noticed it to be skipped, and I think usually 4 is not skipped either, although often that’s a service floor or something. And 4th floor apartments are almost always rented out rather than bought to be lived in. Sometimes it seems every expat I know lives on the 4th floor.

When I go to a restaurant, the first question is, what number is this table? Only some places delete the 4s…and now the captcha is going to make me enter a number below…and it is indeed number 4. Damn!

]]> By: terroir http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/the-significance-of-today-2013-01-04/#comment-215767 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:17:14 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=8796#comment-215767 It doesn’t sound anything like “爱你一生一世”. In both Canto and Mando.

This is total wish fulfillment and superstition. While there’s nothing wrong with that per se, in China it still remains that a symbolic act is more important and influential than an actual act.

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