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Dec 14	awarded	Yearling
May 4	awarded	Nice Question
Mar 31	awarded	Enlightened
Mar 30	awarded	Nice Answer
Mar 22	comment	What are the most common mistakes when pronouncing Pinyin? This question is too subjective unless a proper source is provided. Personally I don't mistakenly pronounce "shuo" but often confuse "cu" and "shu", but that's just me, and it's irrelevant to a Q&A website.
Mar 19	revised	Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese added 627 characters in body
Mar 19	comment	的-地-得, when do you use which? A grammar book I read recently suggests that it's not so important which is which and that you can use 的 in all the cases (maybe not in an important exam but in everyday use). That was confirmed by a Chinese friend who told me to use 的 where it should have been 得. To be confirmed though, but check out recent grammar books.
Mar 16	accepted	When should 了 be after the verb and when should it be at the end of the sentence?
Mar 16	accepted	What is the difference between 狗 and 犬?
Feb 8	comment	Did phonological systems (namely bopomofo) standardize Chinese phonemes? In fact, the earlier system seems to be the fanqie (300 AD), which was used to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanqie ). This is an interesting question though - can a romanization system influence how the language is pronounced? In theory, it shouldn't, in practice, that seems possible (since pupils learn with it).
Feb 4	revised	How is the “r” sound pronounced? month -> mouth
Feb 4	suggested	suggested edit on How is the “r” sound pronounced?
Jan 28	comment	How did 东西 come to mean “something” in the expression “吃东西”? It's not just for food, it's to say "something" in general. It's quite a convenient word when you don't know how something is called - eg. 我要这个东西! Really don't know about the etymology though.
Jan 24	revised	Is there a lot of value in learning to write Chinese characters? added 173 characters in body
Jan 24	comment	Is there a lot of value in learning to write Chinese characters? Hmm... this is an interesting answer though not sure I agree with it. I know nothing about linguistic research but the fact that physically handicapped people can comprehend a language doesn't mean that writing doesn't help (or that it's not more difficult for them to learn). I've asked a question on Cognitive Sciences about this. There's an interesting answer although it doesn't include direct references to linguistic research articles - cogsci.stackexchange.com/q/68/63
Jan 16	comment	Is there a traditional Chinese New Year greeting? A translation of all this would be useful :)
Jan 15	comment	How do we choose the correct characters for a westerner name? @Petruza, to add to Huang's comment, I read that today names are limited to what can be input on the computer. This is because ID cards now are printed digitally so if the official cannot type your characters, they will ask you to change your name. Here's an article about it: "Name Not on Our List? Change It, China Says" - nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21china.html
Jan 11	awarded	Nice Answer
Jan 10	comment	Characters which have several different shapes @Szabolcs, sometime there's only a small difference between two characters but it doesn't mean it's the same character. So as Huang said you need to learn them. They are different characters with different pronunciations and meanings.
Jan 10	comment	Characters which have several different shapes This question seems to be about a browser bug, which incorrectly chooses the wrong font, and not about the Chinese language. There's a thread about this font problem on meta.