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Sep. 9th, 2004 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI didn't die at the Evil Perio Guy appointment. It just cost $140.00.
In other news, Not-Our-Real sent me the following in email: 今日は、仕事で、MISが「SSHが判らないものだから、使ないで下さい。」と言う電話した。 Well, except it was in romaji because she knows my email isn't all *that* kanji-compatible. For our non-Japanese-capable audience, that comes out "Today, at work, MIS called to say that they knew not of this SSH thing and therefore I would please stop using it." More or less. I had some contextual help, here, because I know that MIS is in charge of N-O-R's work's internet policy, that SSH is a tool for talking to servers without physical access to 'em, and that N-O-R talks to her server at home via SSH when she's at work. But I was pleased that I could read what she wrote, anyway, without a dictionary. Go me!
Also, here is a poem, written in Mandarin Chinese, that provides a look/listen multimedia argument against a phonetic alphabet for Mandarin Chinese. It's pretty neat even if you don't speak the language. Be sure to click on the Cantonese audio link, too, so that you can compare Cantonese to Mandarin. (Cantonese is the language of Jackie Chan movies, just so you know.)
In other news, Not-Our-Real sent me the following in email: 今日は、仕事で、MISが「SSHが判らないものだから、使ないで下さい。」と言う電話した。 Well, except it was in romaji because she knows my email isn't all *that* kanji-compatible. For our non-Japanese-capable audience, that comes out "Today, at work, MIS called to say that they knew not of this SSH thing and therefore I would please stop using it." More or less. I had some contextual help, here, because I know that MIS is in charge of N-O-R's work's internet policy, that SSH is a tool for talking to servers without physical access to 'em, and that N-O-R talks to her server at home via SSH when she's at work. But I was pleased that I could read what she wrote, anyway, without a dictionary. Go me!
Also, here is a poem, written in Mandarin Chinese, that provides a look/listen multimedia argument against a phonetic alphabet for Mandarin Chinese. It's pretty neat even if you don't speak the language. Be sure to click on the Cantonese audio link, too, so that you can compare Cantonese to Mandarin. (Cantonese is the language of Jackie Chan movies, just so you know.)
