9/10/08

Chinese class continued ...

In my listening class we just had a lesson about giving directions. We listened to a tape of a woman asking a cop for directions to her son's apartment. In the end she thanks him and calls him "comrade". How goddamned old is our material? I'm not Chinese and even I know that the word for comrade means faggot nowadays.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

tony,

that is hilarious!

carlo

Anonymous said...

using older textbooks is understandable, but it's really strange they haven't purged that word yet.

By the way, from your description of the "giving directions" lesson, I'd guess you're about ready for another lesson on visiting the Great Wall. Did we mention how long it is in the last one?