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furtechBoring update.
Spent the better part of this week helping a friend catch the dog she adopted from the PetExpo last weekend. The rescue group was big heart, little experience, apparently: they neglected to warn her that the dog was an expert "bolter". They were careful, but when the door was cracked, the dog shot out like a cannon-- into the streets of Van Nuys. Did I mention that this dog was from Taiwan? Not only that, but an experienced Taiwanese street dog that they only captured because her leg had been crushed by a car. And yes, the dog only understood Taiwanese (not even sure what Chinese dialect it was!). Oy.
Happy News: the rescue organization gets full marks for dedication, though: they are located in Claremont and still managed to come out almost every night for hours to help search. They -finally- found the dog (after over four days of sightings and misses) and the fosterer who it knew was able to calm the dog and get her to come to the fosterer. There was much happiness.
The rest of the week was organizing projects for work, getting the dogs enrichment and setting more tech up.
Today I get to play a Communist Chinese soldier and shoot a gun and, in turn, get shot. Good times.
(Hmmm...this post has an unintentional Chinese bent to it.)
Possibly later: Sucker Punch. Tomorrow: Easter and resisting the addictive lure of Easter candy.
On-going: reading posts about Norwescon and enjoying the convention vicariously through them.
PS: the dogs LOVE Easter Sunday walks-- they find all the eggs the kids missed. Yum.
EDIT: here's a picture of Din-Din, taken at the PetExpo
She's about Apache-sized, but skinnier.
Spent the better part of this week helping a friend catch the dog she adopted from the PetExpo last weekend. The rescue group was big heart, little experience, apparently: they neglected to warn her that the dog was an expert "bolter". They were careful, but when the door was cracked, the dog shot out like a cannon-- into the streets of Van Nuys. Did I mention that this dog was from Taiwan? Not only that, but an experienced Taiwanese street dog that they only captured because her leg had been crushed by a car. And yes, the dog only understood Taiwanese (not even sure what Chinese dialect it was!). Oy.
Happy News: the rescue organization gets full marks for dedication, though: they are located in Claremont and still managed to come out almost every night for hours to help search. They -finally- found the dog (after over four days of sightings and misses) and the fosterer who it knew was able to calm the dog and get her to come to the fosterer. There was much happiness.
The rest of the week was organizing projects for work, getting the dogs enrichment and setting more tech up.
Today I get to play a Communist Chinese soldier and shoot a gun and, in turn, get shot. Good times.
(Hmmm...this post has an unintentional Chinese bent to it.)
Possibly later: Sucker Punch. Tomorrow: Easter and resisting the addictive lure of Easter candy.
On-going: reading posts about Norwescon and enjoying the convention vicariously through them.
PS: the dogs LOVE Easter Sunday walks-- they find all the eggs the kids missed. Yum.
EDIT: here's a picture of Din-Din, taken at the PetExpo
She's about Apache-sized, but skinnier.
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Date: 2011-04-24 06:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-24 06:22 am (UTC)Most Chinese are Han people, even if they speak different dialects. There are exceptions and some groups insist they are not quite the same - e.g. Hakka, of which I am one even though ethnically Hakka is probably Han also.
HK is next to Canton / Guangdong, they speak Cantonese / "Guangdonese?" Mandarin is the official language both in Taiwan and Mainland, I guess because the officials ("mandarins") speak it, but they call it Putonghua ("common/plain language").
I actually do not know if Szechuan people have their own dialect.
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So to summarize: there is only one written language and the Mandarin is the closest spoken version of it. Different areas develop their own dialect and the difference is far greater than, lets say, Queen's speech to the Southern dialect. Mandarin and Cantonese is reasonably close (i.e. a chasm) but Fukinese may as well be Japanese to Mandarin or Cantonese speakers.