cackled at the 狗东西！/ 它是鸭东西 exchange, that's so delightful. have you come across 鬼东西 (rough translation: "cursed thing")?
that's a relief about human-interest stories in HSK6! still daunting, but it sounds more manageable.
Also I was searching for a passage in a document at work and kept wondering why no matter how many times I typed “nuli” it would only convert to 塗り; finally I realized I should be typing “doryoku” 努力.
omg, relatable JP/CN learner things... I have a bad habit of typing 'yi mi' while on my Japanese keyboard and wondering why 意味 won't come up, myself! strange things happen in that transitional slippage between languages.
I enjoyed your elaboration and thoughts on 台湾漫游录|台湾漫遊鉄道のふたり very much. <3 I'm gearing up for a move and thesis-writing so my brain is on vacation and I don't have much commentary to offer yet, but it was heartening more than I can say to read this and then see you expanding on my initial haphazard thoughts, with an incisive meditation on the elusive and slippery and difficult dynamic between hegemony and individuality! defo a post I want to signpost people to in future when I have a chance.
I want to look again at this first- and second-order description idea (along with the related concept of emic and etic?)
and you have my blessing to go ahead with this! I LOVE learning about literary/creative writing techniques, and my 1st/2nd order theory is (in hindsight) cribbed from various creative writing articles I've read and which have percolated into my brain, i.e., it's all communal and free for elaboration, you can think of it as an "open-source idea" if that helps.
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Date: 2024-08-08 11:03 am (UTC)that's a relief about human-interest stories in HSK6! still daunting, but it sounds more manageable.
omg, relatable JP/CN learner things... I have a bad habit of typing 'yi mi' while on my Japanese keyboard and wondering why 意味 won't come up, myself! strange things happen in that transitional slippage between languages.
I enjoyed your elaboration and thoughts on 台湾漫游录|台湾漫遊鉄道のふたり very much. <3 I'm gearing up for a move and thesis-writing so my brain is on vacation and I don't have much commentary to offer yet, but it was heartening more than I can say to read this and then see you expanding on my initial haphazard thoughts, with an incisive meditation on the elusive and slippery and difficult dynamic between hegemony and individuality! defo a post I want to signpost people to in future when I have a chance.
and you have my blessing to go ahead with this! I LOVE learning about literary/creative writing techniques, and my 1st/2nd order theory is (in hindsight) cribbed from various creative writing articles I've read and which have percolated into my brain, i.e., it's all communal and free for elaboration, you can think of it as an "open-source idea" if that helps.