Comments on: Chinese gold-farmer phrasebook for English-speaking gamers

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:05:00 +0000

Wǒ bù huì shuō zhōngguó huà. Gǔgē fānyì duì wǒ lái shuō.

By: Herbert Ip

Herbert Ip — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:59:00 +0000

terrible grammar. i would have no clue what “gāi hángmǔ” means if you didn’t translate it in english. should be 航空母艦 or háng kōng mǔ jian4 (dunno how to do a down dash :S)full sentence qing wen ni de hang kong mu jian you mei you yi ge xiao gu ting che xu ke zheng?

By: Herbert Ip

Herbert Ip — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:48:00 +0000

shi does mean yes.

and at the same time there is not a universal “yes” in the english language. there’s affirmative, confirmed, agreed, true, etc etc i can go forever.

shi works perfectly fine if someone asks you a yes or no question.

By: Herbert Ip

Herbert Ip — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:45:00 +0000

don’t even need to. just say hǎo mā?
zou ba is more lets go without the ? so zou le ba would be more a suggestion.

and kan le is a bit too cryptic, cuz it’s also past tense if you don’t add a ? to it.
kān yí kān works too, literally means look one look.

By: Herbert Ip

Herbert Ip — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:40:00 +0000

kan, ni kan are very similar, one means look, the other means you look.

qing kan is please look.

By: Herbert Ip

Herbert Ip — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:39:00 +0000

i’m chinese, and though yes it could mean a ton of things, at the same time it’s all about context. there’s a ton of words with the same exact pronunciations, but we still understand each other

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:27:00 +0000

Nǐ yǒu yīgè xiǎoqū tíngchē xǔkě zhèng, gāi hángmǔ ma? – Do you have a residential parking permit for that aircraft carrier?

By: Nagurski

Nagurski — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:14:00 +0000

無用.

By: pizzicato

pizzicato — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:39:00 +0000

wo ke yi cheezburger?

By: Jens Reuterberg

Jens Reuterberg — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:47:00 +0000

Yes foreign insults are fantastic – nothing beats hearing a 15 yo american calling my mother a prostitute, yet again, in english.

By: neelu sree

neelu sree — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:15:00 +0000

I am not native english speaker.I am learning english with videos like this one http://youtu.be/s6Ris80-QdY

By: nachoproblem

nachoproblem — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:30:00 +0000

But you know this is obsolete now. They don’t farm for gold anymore, they just hack accounts. Far more time-efficient.

(Another reason to quit playing WoW, or not to start.)

By: James Clark

James Clark — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:41:00 +0000

Yeah, Shi by itself is fine I think; although generally I guess it’d be better to give them “好不好？“　hao3 bu4 hao3, lit. “Good not good?” . I love that little construction in Chinese, it works for everything – and you can just respond with the same word. “走不走？“ zou3 bu4 zou3　(go not go) or “走吧” zou3 ba (go [suggestion], let’s go?)－　“走！“ go!

oh, and I find “看这个“，　kan4 zhe4ge, lit. “look this”, to be most frequent, though I think “kan” or “看了“ “kan le” is fine too.

By: KWillets

KWillets — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 04:25:00 +0000

Shi de (是的) is common, meaning “it is”.

Some of the usage seems odd, although it could be my poor recollection. Do people say “ni kan” instead of “kan” or “qing kan”?

By: Anton Dyudin

Anton Dyudin — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 03:57:00 +0000

“Ni hen que de! – You are a f****t! (Lit: You lack any sense of class whatsoever.)”
Foreign insults are the best.

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:51:00 +0000

I could see that actually as a universal ‘I’m about to do something really stupid’/Attack Battle Cry

By: Ashen Victor

Ashen Victor — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 01:21:00 +0000

“Shi – Yes”
Wtf?!
No no no, Shì means “to be”, there is not an universal “yes” in Chinese mandarin.

By: Nadreck

Nadreck — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 01:12:00 +0000

Don’t see how you can use this transliteration. There’re no intonation marks. ”Pao” probably means four different unrelated things depending on how it gets intoned.

By: Sirkowski

Sirkowski — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:30:00 +0000

What’s U MAD in Chinese?

By: Just_Ok

Just_Ok — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:26:00 +0000

Yi ding

By: Just_Ok

Just_Ok — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:25:00 +0000

Ni xian zou.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:03:00 +0000

Please tell me “Leeroy Jenkins” translates…

By: Khordas Salamander

Khordas Salamander — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:23:00 +0000

Less critical when typed out, fortunately.

By: AwesomeRobot

AwesomeRobot — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:02:00 +0000

They should include a Pinyin pronunciation guide in there.