第一百二十六天

[nnozomi]

Weekly review:
语法
了 for change of state with verbs (positive)
“not doing it any more” with 了
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Change_of_state_with_%22le%22
吧 for concessions (okay, then; well, FINE)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Conceding_with_%22ba%22
了 to show "already"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22already%22_with_just_%22le%22
verb + 了 for a completed action
verb + 了 + object for completed aspect
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_completion_with_%22le%22

词汇
风, wind
干, dry, also 干净, clean
干, do, also 干什么, what to do [what are you doing, why]
高, high (also 高兴, happy)
告诉, tell
哥 (哥哥), older brother

风 fēng, wind
gān, dry; also 干净 gānjìng, clean
干 gàn, do; also 干什么 gàn shénme, what to do
高 gāo, high (also 高兴 gāoxìng, happy)
告诉 gàosu, tell
哥 gē (哥哥), older brother
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

玩玩
Have a somewhat less familiar Zhu Yilong song I like, 我会等. (It comes from a Thai-Chinese horror film apparently, so if, like me, (mild) horror is not your thing, maybe avoid some of the video images.)

Also a couple of words I learned this week that I like: 甜甜圈, doughnut (“sweet sweet encircle”), and 小事一桩, nothing to it, no sweat, お安い御用, a piece of cake (a piece of doughnut?). (一桩 is 一樁 in 繁体字, which I can’t help reading as “one camellia.”)

好好休息（好好努力）吧！

Comments

[shadaras]

I love how this week's grammar was pretty much just 了 in half a dozen ways <3 Such a versatile particle!

In theme(?) with your ZYL song rec, here's one by Zhou Shen: 天堂岛之歌 (which, despite the name, is horror-themed as well!)

[presumenothing]

天堂岛 MY BELOVED

(Relevant link to a lyric translation by heymeowmao!)

[shadaras]

Ahhh thank you for the translation link! <3

[nnozomi]

I love how this week's grammar was pretty much just 了 in half a dozen ways <3 Such a versatile particle!
As they say, you ain't seen nothing yet...we have SO MUCH MORE 了 to come. There's versatile and then there's ubiquitous.

Zhou Shen: 天堂岛之歌 (which, despite the name, is horror-themed as well!)
Wow. His otherworldly high range is so well suited to that kind of creepiness when he wants it to be, he's got such a huge range of expression as well as pitch...

[sakana17]

The song 我会等 is the best thing about that movie! It's a lovely song. (The movie is a complete mess.)

I really like 甜甜圈. Such a good description. :)

[nnozomi]

It's a lovely song. (The movie is a complete mess.)
Here is where my "sorry, not watching horror even for Zhu Yilong" reflex comes in handy! It's too bad. But it really is a lovely song.

[presumenothing]

Speaking of traditional, a rabbithole I accidentally went down today thanks to a Discord discussion – the Wikipedia page on character conversion and related:

字词转换包括繁简处理和地区词处理。繁简处理指的是逐字地把原始文本转换为简体中文或繁体中文，而地区词处理则会处理各地区词汇的差异。例如，直接的繁简转换可能会把“義大利”转换为“义大利”，而地区词处理则可以将其转换为“意大利”。

aka, roughly:

Character swapping involves traditional/simplified handling and regional terms handling. Traditional/simplified handling refers to word-by-word changing of the original text to simplified or traditional Chinese, while regional terms handling will handle differences in terminology per region. For example, a direct traditional/simplified change might replace 義大利 with 义大利, while regional terms handling can change this to 意大利.

At which point translator's note that keikaku means plan given that Italy is 義大利 in trad, the first character 義 would usually simplify to 义, but the Correct™️ simplified for is actually 意大利 instead. Which isn't even a problem I had thought about before, before even getting into the actual vocabulary differences per-region usage.

(For the record, Wikipedia currently offers 6 options: Mainland Simplified, Hong Kong Traditional, Macau Traditional, Malaysia Simplified, Singapore Simplified, and Taiwan Traditional. I say "currently" because these have been split out over the years – HK/Macau and Malaysia/Singapore used to each be combined at some point.)

Anyway, on a completely unrelated note, I have 我問天 on the mind for some reason??

[nnozomi]

translator's note that jihua means plan given that Italy is 義大利 in trad, the first character 義 would usually simplify to 义, but the Correct™️ simplified for is actually 意大利 instead. Which isn't even a problem I had thought about before, before even getting into the actual vocabulary differences per-region usage.
Ah yeah, why translators still get paid to do ZH-CN ↔ ZH-TW properly rather than just converting the characters automatically. (When I was a translation manager these were the two big ones, plus very occasionally Hong Kong--I don't remember Macau, Malaysia (for Chinese), or Singapore ever coming up.) Also on a not completely unrelated note, that 妳 for 你 in the (very catchy) 我问天 you linked! I get 妳'd by my friend in Taiwan a lot and it always takes me a moment.