第八十七天

[nnozomi]

语法
离 with questions (离...近/远, 离...多远？）
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_distance_with_%22li%22
(bottom half of page)

词汇
床, bed, also 起床, get up 床 chuáng, bed, also 起床 qǐchuáng, get up
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

Guardian:
那你好好在床上躺着 (lie down in bed)

My practice:
你搬到的公寓离地铁站多远？
他等闻见咖啡才能起床。

（评论回复以后，今天身体不太好）

Comments

[trobadora]

今天身体不太好

No idea how to express this in Chinese, but: *HUGS*

ETA: And I meant to say this yesterday but forgot - one disadvantage of reading Chinese text in a website layout optimised for Latin characters is font sizes. At my standard font size, some characters just turn into unreadable blobs, and 离 is one of them. I wonder if there's a way to increase font size for Chinese characters only ...

[sakana17]

今天身体不太好

Take care! I hope you feel better soon.

[presumenothing]

我公司离我床太远了 XD 靠近一点好吗

祝你早日康复! 健康第一~

(Also, more Guardian language squiggles, this time on the 上古秘闻录 ancient text with Kunlun… archaic language, why)

[nnozomi]

No idea how to express this in Chinese, but: *HUGS*
Me neither, but thanks *hugs back* maybe *给你拥抱*！ I'm sure there is a proper Chinese netizen version of some kind...

The font size problem is beyond my capability, I'm sorry to say. Let us know if you find something?

[nnozomi]

谢谢啊 <3

[nnozomi]

我公司离我床太远了 XD 靠近一点好吗
辛苦啦。我工作离我床太近了，一定要工作的时候倒一睡懒觉...

祝你早日康复!
谢谢你～ <3

and thanks for all the Guardian transcriptions! Love it.

[elenothar]

*commiserating hug of the 'bodies, why' variety*

[grayswandir]

I have the same problem with the font sizes, and your comment made me wonder if maybe there was a browser extension that could do something about it. I found this Chrome extension that's supposed to enlarge the font of any text in Chinese (or whatever language you choose). I've installed it, though, and it's not quite doing what it's supposed to... for one thing, I can't get it to work automatically, I have to click on the extension on every page where I want the Chinese font enlarged. For another thing, it doesn't just enlarge the Chinese text, but all the text in any field where there is Chinese text (so e.g. on my DW friends feed, it enlarges all the text in the guardian_learning posts, both Chinese and English, though luckily it at least doesn't enlarge the text in my other friends' posts that don't contain any Chinese text).

I might end up keeping it anyway, because it does work pretty well to make the Chinese font big enough to read, even if it's not as good as it promises to be...

[trobadora]

Will do! I googled aruond a bit but haven't found anything usable yet.

[trobadora]

Ha, glad it's not just me with the font size problem!

I googled around a bit and came across hints that it should be possible to achieve with a userscript, but haven't found one that actually does it. Thanks for searching as well! Yeah, I tried that extension, too, and as you say - it enlarges the Latin characters as well, unfortunately. It's not vastly more useful than zooming in and out, IMO. Unfortunately! Seriously, this feels like it should be a more common problem with a readily available solution!

[nnozomi]

*hugs back likewise* <3

[presumenothing]

No promises, but I may have figured out something in Tampermonkey for this – still needs a fair bit of testing on my end first (hacking this together since my JavaScript knowledge is literally 0 lol), but let me know if either of you are willing to guinea pig afterwards. Partly since I don't think I see the same problem y'all do; all my text is legible-sized?

(On the other hand, I have learned how to make all characters display either simple or traditional via user style, if that'll ever come in handy…)

[trobadora]

Oh, wow, really? That would be fantastic! I'm so impressed that you not only tried to tackle this, but actually got somewhere with it so quickly. And yes, I'd absolutely love to test this! ♥ ♥ ♥

Partly since I don't think I see the same problem y'all do; all my text is legible-sized?

Maybe you like your (Latin) fonts larger than we do ours? Or maybe it's some esoteric interaction between font size settings, screen resolution and monitor, who knows ...

And as sfor switching between simple and traditional via user style, that would be awesome to have, too! You're amazing. :D

[grayswandir]

Oh, that's awesome! I'd be happy to guinea pig as well. :D

Looking at all our journals, I think DW journal styles are somewhat to blame here -- I can read Chinese text on your journal and nnozomi's just fine, but the same text on my journal and trobadora's is hard for me to read (and I think she and I both have the same font size and style). My screen is big enough that the Chinese text isn't really illegible, but some characters with a lot of strokes can be hard to make out.

I have learned how to make all characters display either simple or traditional via user style

Oh man, dare I ask? XD It would make everything so much easier to read! But then again I really should keep trying to learn some simplified characters, and I can't think of any better place or way to do it than here...