Comments on NYx2: China through the eyes of Chinglish

I enjoy your writing style. If you'd like to have ...

2009-01-30T20:51:00.000-05:00

I enjoy your writing style. If you'd like to have any travel tales of your time in China published, please contact me at recondite28@gmail.com.

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Haha, special education as a training ground for s...

2009-01-22T08:50:00.000-05:00

Haha, special education as a training ground for spies, brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. :)

I love following your blog Amb! You write as engaging as you podcast! Talented!:)

Happy birthday!! :)

oh trevelyan,

so good to see that name agai...

2009-01-22T00:24:00.000-05:00

oh trevelyan,

so good to see that name again. and hear the viewpoint no one could argue so well as you could! i hear ya!

amb :)

Hi Amber,

>> these students thought t...

2009-01-21T19:43:00.000-05:00

Hi Amber,

>> these students thought that 'special
>> education' meant something to do with
>> the exciting world of international
>> spy-dom, which is very telling in itself

I'm going to side with the kids here. 特工 is secret agent, and it's reasonable to assume 特殊教育 is going to be pretty hardcore if all you have to go on is the name.

The fact that kids are confused is really a huge knock against the schools and the teachers. Who was the genius who named their program after a misleading foreign euphemism? Why not use the more common term 残疾人教育? The name is a total bait and switch.

$0.02

--dave

I've been lucky to work with some of those "brilli...

2009-01-19T20:28:00.000-05:00

I've been lucky to work with some of those "brilliant spies" you refer to, the ones that didn't make it into Tsinghua or some other brand name school. I've always been interested in their stories, what they've done to get a shot at studying abroad, and what obstacles they had to overcome to find residence and work out west.

When I sit down for lunch, I sometimes hear stories of wanting to go back home (China), but also wanting to say here in the US, mainly because of work/life balance and freedom of thought. From the outside looking in, I've wondered what they miss, what they've taken for granted... but then I wonder if they bestow a frame of reference around us "western" living folks wondering WTF?

wow guys, thanks! Leave it to me to open up the li...

2009-01-19T18:17:00.000-05:00

wow guys, thanks! Leave it to me to open up the lines of piracy communication. hehe kidding.

Alex - maybe you know these already? Maybe not? Go...

2009-01-19T17:06:00.000-05:00

Alex - maybe you know these already? Maybe not? Go to:http://www.ninjavideo.net/index.php

or

http://tv-video.net/

or of course find a torrent at: http://www.mininova.org/cat/8

You can easily find burn notice and other US shows to download. Keep it a secret. Don't tell anyone I told you this.

If only these sites existed when I was in China. Sigh. Still, 50kuai for a complete series of 24 on DVD wasn't so bad...

Amber, you should watch Burn Notice...

One ...

2009-01-19T13:06:00.000-05:00

Amber, you should watch Burn Notice...

One advantage of living in USA, is that you can watch most tv shows online. Just go to the network's address, such as abc, or nbc, and watch their tv shows live.

Unfortunately all those sites block access from Canada :(

Hey,恭喜恭喜 ^_^
That´s great!
Every body shoul...

2009-01-19T11:37:00.000-05:00

Hey,恭喜恭喜 ^_^
That´s great!
Every body should have a spy course... ;-)
I´m realy looking vorward to read more of those Chinglish quotes :-)
谢谢你啊 ^_^