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Oct 30

Future Police Officers Sleep During Politics Class

Tag: Chinese — admin @ 6:13 pm

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Read the translation here.

Maxiewawa Reads chinaSMACK | chinaSMACK says:
October 31st, 2008 at 12:30 am

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USTCer says:
October 31st, 2008 at 5:31 am

at 5:55

“这堂课周公会给他们补的”

周公 is “duke of zhou”, an ancient character with nickname “god of dreams”, author of “The Interpretation of Dreams”, kidding

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Zhou

quote from the wiki page:

“Chinese teenagers also like to say ‘Zhou Gong Online’ (MMORPG of Zhou Gong) as a meaning of sleeping in class.”
Leo says:
October 31st, 2008 at 10:14 am

great oral Chinese dude
admin says:
October 31st, 2008 at 11:21 am

Thanks Leo! And ta to USTCer for picking that up. An obscure reference that I would never have got!
uln says:
October 31st, 2008 at 4:40 pm

Well done maxiewawa! You read better than Dashan. And thanks to comment above for the tip on the Duke of 周. I am going to be using that expression.
Marcel says:
November 9th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

hey maxie
just sitting with your father and the rest of the family rose, and uncle edd
we all thginks your chinese is fantastic and we can see the next obama in the makeing.
love from coffs and surrounding suburbs
admin says:
November 9th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

Danke schön! Good on you for looking after the oldies!