第六十一天

[nnozomi]

还 to make good things just okay
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Moderating_positive_adjectives_with_%22hai%22

Guardian:
怎么样，还不错吧 (what do you think? not bad, eh?)
兄弟做得可还好？ (did I do okay?)

My practice:
你怎么样？-还好。(Xiaoge and Wu Xie meet again in LTR)
这个菜还不错，但有点咸。

Thanks for various responses to my question yesterday about what tack to take with ongoing grammar points, etc.! (Opinions still welcome any time) I am thinking about doing a grammar point and a vocabulary word per day, so that people can choose either or both to play with; it shouldn't be hard to pull up vocabulary from one of the HSK lists etc. Also maybe a biweekly or monthly review day/masterpost to catch up, as also suggested. (In the meantime, the tags should enable some amount of searching, though not ideal.) Let me know as needed how that sounds.

Comments

[presumenothing]

每天一词一句… 只要你们觉得信息量还行的话，我本身当然OK～

In the meantime, to 借一借 a line from Mao Buyi's absolutely tearjerking song 一荤一素:

听到这儿你就别担心
其实我过得还可以

[scytale]

OH this is making me realize that 还可以 is very relevant to my fictional interest in extremely understated angst.

I'm running off into the sunset now, imagining all the sad stoic iron woobies saying 还可以 and 不用为我担心.

[presumenothing]

Frankly you could even ramp it up to 我没事 or 我很好 for the max angst understatement levels XD

[scytale]

I was thinking sad stoic woobies who can't completely hide it, but I guess that's what acting is for! :D I do like max angst potential.

[nnozomi]

每天一词一句… 只要你们觉得信息量还行的话
确实信息量会比较增加。。。

Mao Buyi's absolutely tearjerking song 一荤一素:
I was just listening to that. Tearjerking indeed. (请给眼泪？日语直译）
Interesting musically too, it's basically western/diatonic harmonies but the 还可以 line in particular always sounds to me very pentatonic/Chinese scale... (not properly analyzed...).

[presumenothing]

The closest I can think of is probably 催泪? Which is quite literally similar, now that I'm looking at it.

[nnozomi]

Tear-inducing! 谢谢, works for me.