22-10-2003 05:21									#61
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quote: Lots of adverbs, though, if you count all the Lees

I actually found this humorous. What the **** is wrong with me?

	22-10-2003 05:28									#62
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I'm astonished you thought that was funny. I honestly didn't think anyone would get it.

	22-10-2003 05:34									#63
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I've been teaching adverbs, which is probably the only reason I got it. Can't count how many adjectives I've added "-ly" to in the past couple weeks.

	22-10-2003 05:43									#64
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Who are you teaching them to? Seems like after you've figured out the adding '-ly' to the adjective, there wouldn't be a whole lot else to discuss.

Are the midterms hard?

	22-10-2003 05:46									#65
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it only looks like lee for koreans. usually it's better romanized yi, but pronouced ee.

sorta like how roh is really noh.

	22-10-2003 05:46									#66
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quote: Who are you teaching them to?

Japanese high schoolers. They probably already knew it, actually, but you'd never know it from talking to them. Makes it hard to teach them when they never reveal their true ability.

	22-10-2003 05:55									#67
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Maybe they've been taught a little too much humility.

	22-10-2003 05:57									#68
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That's an understatement if I've ever heard one.

	22-10-2003 13:35									#69
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Being Asian, I've got a million of 'em.

	22-10-2003 15:59									#70
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just once, i'd like to hear an asian exaggerate on the generous side.

	22-10-2003 16:07									#71
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quote: Originally posted by st_swithin Maybe they've been taught a little too much humility.

That used to drive me crazy. Some of the most arrogant ****** I've ever met but with a facade of humility.

	22-10-2003 16:32									#72
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we're not arrogant. we're naturally just better than you non-east asians. but it does us no favors to be like the germans and be all aggressive about our superiority.

thus, we have to be humble. and besides, no matter how good we are in comparison to you, there's always that damn fvck of the neighbor's asian kid who's better than you, that fvcking cvnt, i want to kill that bastard now...

umm, yeah.

	22-10-2003 16:36									#73
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quote: we're not arrogant. we're naturally just better than you non-east asians.

Keep dreaming, pal.

	22-10-2003 16:39									#74
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i really wish i still had that fake sony ad, the one where they dubbed over the chairman's voice during the factory scenes:

"as you can see, our workers are naturally short, so they can focus much closer on the chips. the stock footage shows our competitors clearly too tall to be effective workers."

	22-10-2003 16:40									#75
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I was going to make a short joke, but you did it for me. Thanks.

	22-10-2003 18:32									#76
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Nobody's better than me!

Except for gymnastics where I sucked.

Oh- and spatial relations (2D jigsaw puzzle-type stuff),

Oh, and Newtonian physics.

Other than those few fields of endeavor , I acknowledge no superiors, I just dont pretend to be humble.

EDIT: my spelling isnt always the best either. My wife is definitely better at english grammer too but then she's swedish.

	22-10-2003 20:25									#77
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quote: Originally posted by Drake Tungsten quote: we're not arrogant. we're naturally just better than you non-east asians. Keep dreaming, pal.

Megumi doesn't like you

	22-10-2003 20:32									#78
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quote: Megumi doesn't like you

	22-10-2003 21:54									#79
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quote: Originally posted by st_swithin Then who the heck is designating the forms we fill out?!? I'd prefer not to be a hyphenated horror, like the Iran-Contras or EthnicOrigin-American.

government agencies, who included an asian american category under pressure, IIRC, from asian american lobby groups. You dont agree with those groups? Write your congressman!

	22-10-2003 23:45									#80
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quote: EDIT: my spelling isnt always the best either. My wife is definitely better at english grammer too but then she's swedish.

it's grammar.

as for those forms... i have to admit, i much prefer checking "asian-american" as opposed to the following:

code:

[ ] white      [ ] black     [x] other

[x] white     [ ] black

[ ] white      [ ] black     [x] asian/pacific islander

	22-10-2003 23:52									#81
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quote: Originally posted by mindseye quote: at least in the korean language, (...) Interesting! Similar problems for English-speakers learning Chinese. The Chinese seem, to us, to have two slightly different ways of saying each of the sounds CH, SH and TS. To them they are plainly different sounds, to us it's hard to detect the distinction, much less replicate it. It's the reverse of the L-R problem. Anybody around here speak Hindi, Farsi, or Arabic languages? I would love to hear if there are similar pitfalls!

Hebrew - It is always great fun listening to a gentile (well other than a German or a Scot) or very assimilated Jew trying to pronounce the initial consonant in hanukah or Challah.

	22-10-2003 23:55									#82
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quote: Originally posted by Q Cubed quote: EDIT: my spelling isnt always the best either. My wife is definitely better at english grammer too but then she's swedish. it's grammar.

Like I said

	23-10-2003 00:48									#83
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quote: Originally posted by Q Cubed just once, i'd like to hear an asian exaggerate on the generous side.

"My penis is so huge. It is a mammoth penis. A mastadonian penis. I am in awe at being of the presence of my enormous penis." -CEO Sony Corp.

"I am fun to be with. Because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and doggone it, people like me." -Stuart Small Lee

	23-10-2003 00:56									#84
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ok, i see. i should have clarified: i'd like to hear an asian exaggerate on the generous side when they're not comparing themselves to anyone else.

i'd like to hear an asian be honest when they are.

	23-10-2003 01:07									#85
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quote: Originally posted by Q Cubed ok, i see. i should have clarified: i'd like to hear an asian exaggerate on the generous side when they're not comparing themselves to anyone else.

Like those evil fvcking overachiever valedictorians who've never transgressed against their honoured parents, NOT EVEN ONCE, in their entire lives, and are also concert-level violinists or pianists, prima ballerinas, or professional chess players. According to my mom, this is the competition in the world, and since I can't achieve that, I'm going to be a janitor. That's ok; I like cleaning stuff.

quote: Originally posted by Q Cubed i'd like to hear an asian be honest when they are.

So would I, but you know, monkey see, monkey do. I learn by example. I'd need to follow some caucasian-Ivy-league-trust-fund-kid-who'd-been-told-his-whole-life-that-he-was-perfect-marketing-or-advertising-weasel and copy that guy's actions. Then I'd have to learn not to laugh out loud at meetings and learn to can the snide remarks.

I wish they'd offered that class at university.

	23-10-2003 01:12									#86
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quote: According to my mom, this is the competition in the world, and since I can't achieve that, I'm going to be a janitor. That's ok; I like cleaning stuff.

i was never at risk of being a janitor. my mom told me that since i wasn't going to be a math superstar or a genius who wins the nobel prize at 15, i was destined for labor in the service sector like at mcdonald's, and that would be absolutely shameful.

asian parents, gotta love them. i am so not going to be one. bring on all the (bad) american ways of raising children, you know, the ones that your parents always said were awful, like your friends dyeing their hair or staying out late, or -gasp!- dating someone who wasn't slected, groomed, and vetted by your parents.

	23-10-2003 01:24									#87
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I don't need kids - I have myself to kick around. And after all this practice I've had, it would be a shame to stop doing what I'm so good at.

	23-10-2003 01:27									#88
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bah. i want to ruin the lives of my offspring by doing the exact same things that were done to me.

if they dare come home with a 99 instead of a 105, i'll flay 'em alive. maybe that way i'll get rid of my suppressed anger that i supposedly have. 'sgreat when you've got therapists who have no idea how asian family dynamics work.

	23-10-2003 01:30									#89
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Amen to that, brother.

I don't want any kids of my own - this prolific little society of ours produces so many others that I can abuse, and I don't even have to let them into my house.

	23-10-2003 02:21									#90
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y'all might enjoy the follow essay on WASPS, Jews, Asians, Ice Hockey, scholastics, upward mobility and assimilation:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2378/