‘Humor’ Archive

White People Like Language Learning July 6, 2009 No Comments

An exiciting new website outlining the sterotypical racial differences of white people has shown studying broad to be a common trait amongst white people.
 
Further up the list, they so poigniantly call out the notion of raising multilingual children as yet another trait associated with white folks.
 
It gets better. Further up and securing a spot at [...]

Microsoft Names New Search Engine “Disease” May 29, 2009 No Comments

Microsoft’s announced the name of their new search engine. It’s called Bing. Interestingly enough, while there are several meanings for “Bing” in Mandarin, one of the more common definitions is “Disease“.

病 = disease
The character part 疒, which itself is without independent meaning as a full word, stands for diseases and words associated with diseases.
先天病 = xian(1)tian(1) [...]

Importance Of Proper Communication May 19, 2009 No Comments

Most people underestimate the importance of communication. Here is an example illustrating the importance of communicating properly:
 

 

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