Chinese [was: Re: rights (fwd)]

[Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

Lin Zhe Min wrote:

>
>
> > By the way, I studied Chinese for a year when I was at university - I found the
> > grammar really easy but could never remember the vocabulary.
>
> Oh.. No.. The grammar is never easy, since you would never know if you
> get it right or wrong. <Grin>

True of most isolating languages with flexible syntax, I should think.  There again,
I'm never sure if I've got my Lojban grammar right or wrong until Jorge corrects it
;-)

>
> > my mind now are a few sentences like "Women duo hen dao duanlian" and
> > "Tongzhemen!  Zhanxilai!" - our textbooks were written during the Cultural
> > Revolution!
>
> Some minor errata. But quite dramacomic. :-)
> I don't understand the first sentence and I cannot guess it. And the
> second should be "Tongzhimen! Zhanqilai!" (Comrades! Debout!)
>

The first sentence was meant to be "We all, very early, do-physical-training".  As I
said, it was a looong time ago!

co'o mi'e robin.