shameful past moment rule
shameful past moment rule
shameful past moment rule
- Added flies and lice to the wok
64lol probably. maybe a few hairs too
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It's not fly lice, it's fried rice, you plick
33Uncle Benny!
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Once I was at a sushi restaurant and I absentmindedly bowed a bit with my hands in the prayer position.
I just said thank you when they brought my bill. I was mortified!!! I left a huge tip and never went back.
20One of my local Thai restaurants has "wine by the grass" written out on the menu.
I hope most people aren't hurt when language errors seem funny, my Japanese is not even conversational much less good enough to work in food service or notice if I said something funny. Care must be taken to separate a comical difference in the way we say things from prejudice and thinking it means something about a person's humanity or intelligence.
16Oh yeah, the *real* Chinese restaurants (as in, actual native Chinese people choose to eat there) have those in spades. As bad as old NES game manuals. Of course, at those places it's a courtesy that they bothered to put laowai speak on their menus at all.
2All your base are belong to us.
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Twitter for Windows CE
wait what
10CE is still used far more frequently than you'd think. I had been phasing it out for retail clients, but one of them had received brand new time clocks that ran CE
5Yes I know, but Twitter for CE?
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Joke's stupid. It's not the 'R' they have trouble saying.
7From my understanding the Japanese have a sound between R and L, but neither one on their own
12That's Japanese though, this is talking about Chinese. There are a lot of languages and dialects lumped under "Chinese" though. Iirc Mandarin has both an R and an L sound, however I think Cantonese doesn't have an "R" (can't remember, I studied some Mandarin when I was a teenager and I think I remember being told that Cantonese didn't have an "R", but it's been a long time). Not sure about any other languages/dialects.
9Similarly, Korean transliterations of L and R use the same jamo, ᄅ. In actual use the character is pronounced like either English letter depending on where in the word it is.
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In many Asian accents fried rice will come out as fly lice. So maybe stupid, but also accurate.
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Also relevant, my college Chemistry teacher was going down the mole-related measurements, and noting that some students are going to have trouble confusing molarity and molality which are different things, and you may have to practice a bit.
3I worked at a CD-ROM reseller in San Francisco in the 1990s staffed mostly by second-generation immigrants from China. They commonly poked fun at each other's accent, with the fly lice! thing bouncing around the room at least once a week.
2Twitter for Windows CE
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