第四十二天

[nnozomi]

第七天 day! You know the rules. Post something you like, and/or something that was helpful for study, basically anything interesting to you and Chinese-language-related ;)

(Silly request: you know those grid logic puzzles, where you have five people, five pets, five houses etc. and you figure out which belongs to which? Do those exist in Chinese? I have a bad habit of wasting time on them when I'm stressed, and Chinese ones would at least be good reading practice...)

Mine: 吃一堑长一智, a useful (and comforting) phrase Yu-jie taught me last week, roughly "you learn something from every stumble" (?).
Also another favorite Liu Chang song (I think I've posted it before, but not here), since around this time of year, at least in the northern hemisphere, it's what we would all like to do: 再睡五分钟. 我虽然爱睡懒觉，但是绝不迟到，早上好。 remind me to come back to this when the 虽然...但是 grammar point comes up...

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[presumenothing]

Texting from the office while waiting for my spreadsheet to un-死机 itself…

• …and therefore cannot verify whether it's a relevant search but logic puzzles are literally 逻辑谜题, if you want to try that.
• Which reminds me of the festive staple 猜灯谜 – a certain level of hanzi knowledge is required but it may be a conveniently fun intersection of educational/puzzles/absolutely awful puns.
• “大家都知道多睡十分钟有多幸福，但都做不到早睡十分钟。” – Zhou Shen being too real on Offer S3
• Hilariously (and I had to jog my memory via Baidu for this because I haven't heard it in a while) the versions of that phrase I know is yet a different one from both of yours: 经一事长一智… 长 so many variations more like. And for what??
• I feel like the regulars here have all been there already LOL but the meta post on episode 24 over at sid_guardian, aka more of my usual rambling but with gifs. Because Shen Wei.

[trobadora]

Texting from the office while waiting for my spreadsheet to un-死机 itself…

And thanks to this I have now learned 死机! Which is simple and transparent enough that I'll probably even be able to remember! :D

[presumenothing]

In a similar vein (though I should add that both are colloquial terms and I don't actually know what the proper ones would be) there is 死火 for when your car goes kaput/stalls, which makes sense given engines are kinda, y'know, 火-y.

Basically for all the cultural taboo about death the word itself pops up… surprisingly more often than you might expect? XD

[trobadora]

there is 死火 for when your car goes kaput/stalls, which makes sense given engines are kinda, y'know, 火-y.

Hee! Yeah, it does make sense. Seriously, this is the thing I like best about Chinese, all the transparent word formation. ♥

Basically for all the cultural taboo about death the word itself pops up… surprisingly more often than you might expect? XD

That was my impression! Funny how that goes. *g*

[presumenothing]

Because it happened to cross my dashboard, on the matter of handwriting – elberlight has extremely neat literature posts like these! With translations included… and albeit in traditional but hey, I'm a fan of mixing things up XD

[nnozomi]

谢谢你很多有用的链接！我试试看。经一事长一智。。。also for elberlight's pretty handwriting posts!

Basically for all the cultural taboo about death the word itself pops up… surprisingly more often than you might expect? XD
An exchange someone quoted from Liu Chang's Weibo that stuck in my head (forgot the English source, sorry):
刘畅：(wearing a cardigan with only the top button fastened)
一个粉丝：哥, that button, can it be unbuttoned?
刘畅：当然能，又不是钉死的!