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gougou -
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I'm more concerned about the danger of it...
My point exactly (even though misconceptions about the anatomy of US Americans are my least
concern).
The conversations roddy described can be quite fun. The other day, in a matter of a few hours, I
had two taxi drivers, one of which exalting Hu Jintao, the other saying that Hu hadn't done
anything for the country yet. Guess only one of them was reading 人民日报.
Oh yeah, and another cabbie asked me how many kids I had. I told him I wasn't even married yet, as
in Europe it's only around 30 that you marry, and I'm just 24. He looked at me in disbelief, and
said "那你还可以玩六年了！！“。 The rest of the trip, he spent emphasizing how lucky
I was. I avoided to ask about his wife.
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studentyoung -
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Wow, why don't taxi drivers discuss 人口 with me? Once they realize i'm from the big, friendly
ex-苏联 all i get is 莫斯科郊外的晚上
Hmmm… Well… You see, I wonder if you have told any taxi driver that you want to discuss
population with you. If you do tell them, I’m sure they’ll be glad to talk with you on
population. Hehe. I think you can try it next time. Hehe.
By the way, what else do you want to talk, besides population? How about Fjodor Michailovitsj
Dostojevski费奥多尔•米哈伊洛维奇•陀思妥耶夫斯基, Peter Yakovlevitch
Chadaev彼得•雅可夫列维奇•恰达耶夫, Alexander Sergeevich
Pushkin亚历山大•谢尔盖耶维奇•普希金, Georgy Konstantinovich
Zhukov格奥尔吉•康斯坦丁诺维奇•朱可夫,or Pavlov,Ivan
Petrovich巴甫洛夫•伊凡•彼德罗维奇? If your Chinese is very sound, I would be glad
to talk about the great men above with you. (But no Maria Sharapova, please!)
Cheers!
muyongshi -
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You see, I wonder if you have told any taxi driver that you want to discuss population with you.
If you do tell them, I’m sure they’ll be glad to talk with you on population. Hehe. I think
you can try it next time.
I never need to ask and actually hate this conversation. Typical taxi ride= your chinese is sooo
good, where are you from, china is so louhou why would you leave the US, (me) I like China, (him)
but China has too many people, and so on
roddy -
china is so louhou
- so, what do you think should be done about it?
why would you leave the US,
Would you like to move there?
(me) I like China,
but it has some problems, what do you think is the most serious? (which leads to)
(him) but China has too many people,
It does. Who do you think should be eliminated first? Peasants? Politicians? The rich?
gougou -
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I never need to ask and actually hate this conversation.
Agree. I don't want to talk about population (not anymore, anyways), and I still hear it on pretty
much every ride.
muyongshi -
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It does. Who do you think should be eliminated first? Peasants? Politicians? The rich?
I am going to use this next time....brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!
studentyoung -
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I never need to ask and actually hate this conversation. Typical taxi ride= your chinese is sooo
good, where are you from, china is so louhou why would you leave the US, (me) I like China, (him)
but China has too many people, and so on
Hoo... I see. If you come up with the topics you actually hate again, you can say,
“司机，对不起，打断一下，我想问你关于XX的问题……/ Please excuse me, but
I want to ask you something about…..”
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It does. Who do you think should be eliminated first? Peasants? Politicians? The rich?
I am going to use this next time....brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!
Only if you are not afraid to be taken to cuckoo’s nest. Hehe. Anyway, GOOD LUCK!
Cheers!
heifeng -
I'm self promoting my own thread here, but feel free to use this as a topic!
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