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redtab1

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Joined: Mar 10, 2007
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Posted: May 09, 2007 - 05:15 PM

Hi Candy. With the post you wrote above it should be broken up in to separate sentences and the word "wish" should be included. It should have been written as follows:

Hi seeker. Thank you so much for your help. I will be very happy if you help with my English.

scottyg

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Joined: June 22, 2005
Posts: 196
Location: Shanghai.
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Posted: May 19, 2007 - 06:20 AM

Don't mean to sound pedantic, but wouldn't we use the conditional tense in this sense ie "I'd be very happy if you helped with my English..." Dunno, I'm all confused now!

bougie
Board Buddha

Joined: Nov 20, 2004
Posts: 13323
Location: Wuhan Hubei China

Posted: May 19, 2007 - 08:23 AM

mat wrote:

Quote:

I am girl working in shanghai

I'll volunteer. Lesson 1 - you got two words in the wrong order in the above sentence.

Here is the proper english:

I am a working girl in Shanghai and I would like to offer oral to you

kinsey

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Joined: Oct 22, 2006
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Location: between stars and waves
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Posted: May 19, 2007 - 10:18 AM

im surprised, this thread is still alive?

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CoffeeHawk_0
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Posted: May 19, 2007 - 10:32 AM

If kong may dugo, then this thread may stay alive

thegoodgirl

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Posted: May 20, 2007 - 01:39 PM

ash96 wrote:

I found that the locals always like to use the name candy. Some of them even have weird names! Wink

i have colleagues named Bread, Leaf, Muse, Energy, Chain, Glow...

CoffeeHawk_0
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Posted: May 22, 2007 - 09:52 AM

^which one is the best kisser?

DragonAss

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Posted: May 22, 2007 - 10:06 AM

Carrot who thinks Celery will have more similar sound to her Chinese name... the name Hunter sounds a bit too much for me too, regardless others may say it's prefectly find. It just sounds intimidating somehow... Razz

Heaps and heaps of people have "Angel" anywhere in their first/middle/family name. I know enough Angelina, Angelica, Angel, Angeline

seph_07
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Joined: June 23, 2006
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Posted: May 22, 2007 - 10:46 AM

thegoodgirl wrote:

ash96 wrote:

I found that the locals always like to use the name candy. Some of them even have weird names! Wink

i have colleagues named Bread, Leaf, Muse, Energy, Chain, Glow...

glad they didn't heard new words before like ass, pubic, phlegm, testosterone, egg cell.

whew... can't imagine talking to my colleague, "ass, can I eat with pubic now? i heard that phlegm wanted share his food too?"

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Adam7

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Posted: May 22, 2007 - 10:56 AM

I can give you one reason for the weird names...probably not the only one.

When I first came to China I was given a really bad Chinese name, a transliteration that 'marks' you as a westerner, e.g. LouBoTou for Robert or Ya Dang for Adam. These names always get a laugh from Chinese when you introduce yourself.

So, when I got the chance (and I promise I'm not the only one) to give out some names to Chinese, friends, English class, etc it was payback time.

Whoever said 'revenge is a dish best served cold' was 100% on the money.

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clairiz
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Posted: May 22, 2007 - 01:39 PM

Lou Bo means turnip
So, Robert means turnip then

wonderer

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Posted: Aug 16, 2007 - 08:36 PM

Tou (depending on tone) could mean head, so turnip head Smile

ocho97

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Posted: Aug 17, 2007 - 08:34 AM

The best English name I've seen a Chinese person take is one of the servers at the Starbucks in the Kerry Center. He is a jolly, rather large boy named Xpand. No joke, that's what it says on his name tag. Anyone seen it? He's very sweet and friendly so I feel especially bad for him. But then I also want to take his picture. I wonder what English teacher or foreigner with a cruel sense of humor suggested that one to him!

Adam7

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Posted: Aug 17, 2007 - 09:30 AM

Xpand - that is perfect! Give him a few years and he'll be the hottest rapper in China!

I had a girlfriend in High school named Candy, western girl, western parents. She liked a bit of oral too...

Oral is used quite a lot academically, but I think the point is not that it is used for various legitimate reasons - that is beyond dispute. It's more that every time it is used, it gets a chuckle by immature people like you and me.

Candy...am wondering, do you understand the 'other' meaning of Oral, the one that we are all alluding to?

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seph_07
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Posted: Aug 17, 2007 - 09:45 AM

at work, we have one named candy.

some of my colleagues are named apple, cherry, etc.

waiting for "salad" to be hired... Laughing

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Karu

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Posted: Aug 17, 2007 - 09:58 AM

I got a customer named Iceberg. Why not...

seph_07
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Posted: Aug 17, 2007 - 10:17 AM

our client's staff name is shining. the other client has a staff named google. (this one is really serious, i wonder if he googled it or not)

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TISM

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Posted: Aug 17, 2007 - 10:50 AM

the best i had was two students came to work for us on a project and their names:
Gold and Silver.

One of the others guys asked them so where's bronze? (an a***hole sometimes)

We also had working for us Tom, Richard and Harry!

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nguyent8

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Posted: Aug 17, 2007 - 11:08 AM

scottyg wrote:

Don't mean to sound pedantic, but wouldn't we use the conditional tense in this sense ie "I'd be very happy if you helped with my English..." Dunno, I'm all confused now!

I'm confuse now too... shouldn't it be

" I'd be very happy if you could help me with my English."

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Cinderella2006

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Joined: Aug 18, 2007
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Posted: Aug 19, 2007 - 05:26 PM

A good dictionary is indispensable for learning a foreign language.
In learning a foreign language, question and answer drills are good disciplines.
Whether the language is learnt quickly or slowly, it is hard work.
Candy: Let's learn from each other.

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