Comments on: New excuse: atrophied right lobe

By: steve

steve — Tue, 01 Jul 2003 10:21:47 +0000

Actually comptuer in Chinese is 電腦 – Dian4 Nao3 – Electric Brain.

By: nate

nate — Tue, 01 Jul 2003 07:56:15 +0000

Through the use of compound words, of course! The germans have mastered this technique for centuries.. when you don\’t know what to call something, simply keep concatenating words together until it resembles what you are describing. Examples: Computer – GlowGatesNumberBoxDevil. Spaghetti – ThinYumMommaMiaSticks. The list goes on.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:54:29 +0000

Those specific examples, if memory serves, are from Japanese cartoons, but they do use lots of English when they talk to each other. Jenny\’s grandmother somehow gets by without using English though. I wonder how?

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:09:19 +0000

I think mandarin is tired. Whenever I hear Jenny speak on the phone, it\’s always interspersed with english nouns, presumably because there are no mandarin equivalents. I couldn\’t rely on a language that doesn\’t have the words \”panties\” and \”hamburger\” in it (or am I thinking of japanese).

By: walde

walde — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:37:22 +0000

I think Mandarin must also use the part of the brain that makes you believe in ghosts. That would explain alot. I also like to think that Scott they refer to in that article is Scott Hayes.