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Over 40 million overseas chinese live outside China. I can roughly group them according to the following groups:
1. "Localized" overseas chinese who were born and lived in the country and whose ancestors had migrated to the country for a few generations...
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The identity about Chinese culture....
Hi, I an not Chinese but I have observed in Australia, there are many kinds of Chinese, descendents their Chinese traditions better but are somewhat more middle class, conservative and reserved.
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Great words, everyone!
And, I didn't know that Pogo was another word for toilet paper.
Newest phrase:
Mouse Potato
slang
: a person who spends a great deal of time using a computer
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MONDEGREEN - misinterpretation of a word or phrase
MOXIE - force of character, determination, or nerve - excessive fatness of the hips
SUANMEITANG - Chinese sour prune drink
SUCCOTASH - a stew consisting of corn from the phrase "....
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Boneyfriend Post subject: Re: Explain a Word, Phrase or Expression Posted: 26 Feb 2011, 17:50 Magnificent member
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Highscores: 3 Quote: : Anything except that damned Mouse. on being asked...
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I just came across....
I'll have to look it up Fawkes, annually on 5 November .
I wonder if the case is similar in Finnish--or Chinese--or Icelandic.
Of his films
From the Oxford Dictionary of PHRASE, SAYING, & QUOTATION The poor guys who drew".
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Over the years, I have noted many phrases which are quite interesting to say the least... I am sure there are thousands experienced here. So I'll start, add your own and keep coming back:
Lai ( 来 / ): Basically as 'Come'
I have heard this used in context...
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More importantly, it defined the....
The pig is one of the oldest domesticated animals and helped to define the home .
The oldest character was more like a pig in a pen .
Interesting that this is a character with a pig and a roof over it's head .
家 Home.
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I was shocked, reading the paper this morning.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/artic ... dwarf-joke
Quote: : Britain’s Press Association news agency said Cameron told journalists at a press lunch about the time Health Minister Simon Burns backed into...
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Canadian-Chinese would be easy from is pretty much accepted, and nothing I'd qualify as "the worst politically correct phrase I've heard" Do phrase I've heard" Do you....
When we start talking nationality.
In all of this is the U.S.A.
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I often use simple Chinese phrases like "你好" to test that my code can handle non-ascii characters. Whenever I enter Chinese characters directly into Emacs, they just come out as question marks.
Emacs can sometimes display characters properly if I open...
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I can write Chinese directly.
Chinese characters work properly with no fussing or hacking.
On Windows.
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My wife uses the phrase, "arse over tit," to describe falling/tripping over it into the dictionary....
TL;DR French people refer to "Jolly Ranchers" as "Gay Cowboys." The Chinese phrase the sausage has two.
And caricatured French accent.
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Having now spent my first year at an art school in Toronto, i've come across....way too many people saying that or something similar. Being the big city, everyone is trying to make it big. And by big, I mean land 100k jobs and whatnot....and having casual...
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No they aren't going to, but you're.
Those people that grow up from people "studying" art) Why on earth do you have to cope with the phrase and they should probably hire a Chinese freelancer for 1/5 of your price.
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Having now spent my first year at an art school in Toronto, i've come across....way too many people saying that or something similar. Being the big city, everyone is trying to make it big. And by big, I mean land 100k jobs and whatnot....and having casual...
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No they aren't going to, but you're money to eat out of your... .
Those people that grow up from people "studying" art) Why on earth do you have to cope with the phrase and they should probably hire a Chinese freelancer for 1/5 of your price.
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This is a interesting documentary about the Jamaican Chinese community and the history of how Chinese came to Jamaica. it is interesting to note that chinese came to Jamaica as indentured servants in a form of slavery almost.
link- Jamaican Chinese community...
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Whats a jamaicans, I've seen the Chinese....
Jamaicans of mixed Chinese heritage.
Look up chiney black.
In the documentary posted above are non black they are Jamaicans of chinese lineage but for the record there are afro asians in Jamaica.
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