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Nov 2	comment	Academic explanation for rhyming fillers with irrelevant meaning in doggerel @JamesJiao didn't know that, very interesting. Even more interesting is they then omit the rhyming part to encrypt the message, like Pig Latin but much more advanced.
Nov 2	comment	Placement of Pinyin in relation to characters Agree with halfelf that in textbooks for native speakers in mainland, Pinyin is definitely above characters.
Nov 2	comment	What is the correct measure word for 问题 (question)? you're right, in that specific context it sounds good, not in spoken language though.
Oct 31	comment	What is the correct measure word for 问题 (question)? Both 一件问题 and 一项问题 can be understood but sound awkward to me. IMO these usages should be avoided. Otherwise it's a great answer.
Oct 26	comment	How to cope with classical references? @QuestionOverflow it illustrates a typical traditional farmer's village - during the day, men are out in the fields, the village is all about hedges, wives and watchdogs. It was a chapter name of a novel about mind liberation of Chinese farmers (w.r.t. acknowledging women have right to divorce or leave hometown.)
Oct 25	comment	Could you please explain more to me about 'of' in my example? @QuestionOverflow that's an interesting example I've never thought of. I should write it down! :)
Oct 25	comment	Is there more than one way to pronounce “knee” in Chinese? My understanding (without any proof) is that xi1 is prescriptive pronunciation made by some committee, as every one person I know pronounces it as qi1 before "corrected" by a school teacher. My and my friends' parents came from all over China, they all say qi1 gai4.
Oct 21	comment	How to translate “你给我滚” properly Very much agreed. An alternative explicit translation could be "said me". 你给我滚 = "You get away, said me."
Oct 19	comment	What does 'twitter/facebook Town Hall' mean in Chinese? @liamxu In the companies I've worked for, 员工大会 is called "company meeting" or "all-hands meeting". "Town hall" is more of a Q/A session with managers that you are free to attend or not. Chinese translation is 与xxx面对面/见面会/问答会.
Oct 18	comment	How to say “用斜杠包围逗号” in english? Please refer to this meta Q/A.
Oct 18	comment	How to say “用斜杠包围逗号” in english? I might be wrong but IMO that question is really about the meaning of a specific Chinese idiom; this question is really about how to put something in English while the source language happened to be Chinese.
Oct 18	comment	How to say “用斜杠包围逗号” in english? This is not a Chinese Language and Usage question...
Oct 15	comment	Asking “how many cousins do you have?” @QuestionOverflow Good point. I have updated my answer. Thanks for pointing out.
Oct 15	comment	Asking “how many cousins do you have?” +1 for the references. Regardless I wouldn't recommend using this word this way as the possible confusion it may introduce.
Oct 14	comment	How do you emphasize unformatted Chinese text? I would argue against the last statement. Every one of my middle school and college textbook use these marks. A lot of publications use them too. You can find them even in literature and novel books. As a matter of fact, I pick a random book from my bookshelf and I can find the emphasis mark somewhere in it.
Oct 14	comment	Asking “how many cousins do you have?” I've only heard 兄妹 for its narrow meaning; never heard as an abbreviation for 兄弟姐妹.
Oct 12	comment	Terms of endearment +1 for categorization. Worth noting some of them are only used as pronouns, some are only used as vocatives, some can be used in both ways.
Oct 12	comment	Do 看一看 and 瞧一瞧 have the same meaning? @JamesJiao exactly! :)
Oct 10	comment	Grammar for counting in Chinese (for non-native speakers of Chinese) @HagenvonEitzen a large proportion of the online translation results you've cited is wrong or inconsistent; what is said in this answer is right. Just stick with the answer and ignore those translations.
Oct 10	comment	Can I use 我的腿累了 for “My legs are tired”? @OlleLinge this can be disambiguated by appending 了. 我的腿没力了 only refers to its state at present rather than its capability.