Yeah, my dad’s hometown is from a place like that
Got a cousin from there, she’s pretty smart
Plus none of the people (I ran into) struck me as particularly stupid
Yeah you have a point. I haven’t really seen enough of China to make a definitive comment
It’s pretty horrible. It’s tough to choke down but if you’re committed then you can do it. I chose to add tonic water and a lime. That can almost taste good even with the cheap stuff. I used orange juice once and it just made bad tasting OJ but it was tolerable. It was so tolerable that I got to puke it back up later.
Northerners…
I thought shanghai was south china though? (just barely, but still)
Don’t care. I don’t understand a thing they are saying there so I’m lumping them with the Manchus.
What about Zhejiang?
Shaoxing, Jinhua dialects are pretty hard to understand too
I know the Nanchang dialect. It’s in Zhejiang and similar to the Shaoxing dialect. My wife’s from there. It doesn’t sound as silly as “an shi shang hei ning(wo shi shang hai ren)(I am Shanghai person)” lolol.
Point taken. I would never have understood that without the translation lol
Do you understand the Beijing mandarin accent? They curl their tongues too much. I have to reaally listen to decipher what they’re saying sometimes.
Isn’t it just a 儿 here and there? (and everywhere)? (never been)
I do understand Shaoxing though, even when 2 Shaoxing natives are speaking
It’s a little more than that. You gotta hear them speak to get it lol.
Ah ok
On a related note- do you understand jinhua? Shaoxing and jinhua are both in zhejiang yet they somehow sound really different (atleast to me)
Tbh I’ve never heard of Jinhua till today lol. Sounds like the name of a wine
It’s what people who don’t know about good booze drink here to get drunk
Ok, so I looked it up. It’s at the border of Hangzhou so the dialect should be closer to the Min Nan dialect, which is what the Taiwanese speak. The Min Nan dialect sounds something like this: “wa xi taiwan lang(wo shi taiwan ren)”. So yeah, it’s ver different from the Shaoxing dialect.
EDIT
I’m afraid I’ve got it mixed up. The Nanchang dialect isn’t similar to the Shaoxing dialect so I don’t think I know what it sounds like. I thought it was since ny wife was originally from Shaoxing but her family doesn’t speak it If it’s close to the Min Nan dialect I may be able to decipher some of the words.
Anything with Coke would keep me awake long enough to black out and stay on my feet for hours of fuckery. I’d end up hearing about it for weeks.
So glad that was before cell phone cams.
it’s like rougher mandrin
wo zi zhao xing zhen (wo shi shao xing ren) (I am [a] shaoxing person)
Then it’s definitely of Min Nan origin lol. I’m of Fujian ancestry. We have the greatest curse words. Everything we say probably sounds like a profanity.
It bothers me how desensitized people are to seeing the remains of dogs just splattered all over the pavement. I still get a bit traumatized from seeing dead raccoons and squirrels. Seeing dogs and cats really just adds fuel to the fire for my disdain of the majority of humans. How fast are you going in the neighborhood anyways? I’m only bitching because I lost a dog to idiots going too fast deep within my neighborhood. Slow the fuck down
You should try seeing humans in that setting. Well, actually, don’t. Hang out with cops, firemen, or EMS folks and you’ll see a new level of “desensitized”. Hell, it might even be considered depravity. Dark humor seems to be the most common coping mechanism.
It’s been almost two years ago to the day that I saw one of the most graphic scenes of my life and I still see it very vividly.