第二年第十九天

[nnozomi]

Don't miss yesterday's two posts about 水果 and Guardian audio practice respectively!

语法
V + 不 + complement, "can't do X ~~" (bottom of page)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Potential_complement

词汇
草, grass; 草地, lawn (also goes nicely with yesterday's 水果 post, featuring 草莓) 草 cǎo, grass; 草地 cǎodì, lawn
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
这是怎么回事啊，他听不见, what's going on here? He can't hear me.
我看这山路一时半刻也修不好, I don't think this path can be fixed in just an hour or so [?]
你不是一直也想去那儿看看花花草草吗, don't you still want to go there and see flowers and grasses?

Me:
我看不清楚那个字，也许终于需要眼镜了吗。
如果规则说不要走在草地上，就跑步。

Comments

[trobadora]

Thank you for the pointer, I had somehow missed the Anki post!

[nnozomi]

Glad to be of use! So many good posts lately.

[sakana17]

Lost Tomb Reboot, episode 31:
一定会打草惊蛇的

打草惊蛇 is one of my favorite 成语 - it came up in Border Town Prodigal a lot! :D

episode 12 has:
这么草率
but why 草率 contains 草 is a mystery to me

[grayswandir]

but why 草率 contains 草 is a mystery to me

I learned "coarse, crude, rough" as one of the meanings of 草, so I assume that's the connection here? I haven't learned any other compounds where it has that meaning exactly, but looking around I do see 潦草, which apparently describes sloppy handwriting, and there also seem to be a few words like 草稿 (a sketch or rough draft) where it means "rough" in a way that's maybe similar to "careless/sloppy"...

[sakana17]

I learned "coarse, crude, rough" as one of the meanings of 草, so I assume that's the connection here?

Ah! Good to know! (Will I remember this...? 🤔)

[presumenothing]

As the other comment noted on 草 – 草书 even (if memory serves) describes a style of calligraphy which just looks like "brush go swishhhhh" to me, so yeah there's an element of describing looseness(?) in some usages.

[sakana17]

草书 even (if memory serves) describes a style of calligraphy which just looks like "brush go swishhhhh" to me

:D I had to look up images of this to see if it was the style of calligraphy I immediately thought of and yes, it was! I'm in awe of those who can read it.

[presumenothing]

(😂 wingdings if it was calligraphy)

[nnozomi]

打草惊蛇 is great! Japanese has the same expression, just compressed to 藪蛇, a snake in the bush ;)

[sakana17]

just compressed to 藪蛇

Awww, that's great!