Notes on pop culture

July 31, 2009

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My mom likes to take notes on pop culture for future reference on whatever is close by, usually the mail. I channel flipped to Harry Potter and she asked me which one it was. I answered and she proceeded to jot it down:

harry-potter

Tagged as: chinese characters, harry potter, pop culture

chanman

I can't read that first Chinese word… I would think it is dì, ?? but it doesn't look like it…
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That was my guess too. But my Chinese reading/writing abilities suck, so who really knows.
Tea

you are correct. it's just simplified. It says “The 5th chapter (or installment)”

i'm impressed that your mom can spell phoenix correctly!
sui

your mum is soo hilarious. she's just like my mum, exact personality.
chanman

ahh, like script?
never had good enough (Chinese) handwriting to write like that…
It's weird how different values are even put into Chinese and English handwriting – English is more “soft” and “flowing”, while Chinese is supposed to be “hard” with defined lines.
Tea

yes i meant script, not simplified as in simplified chinese (there is no simplified version of ?).

i've always learned chinese writing as flowing, poetic characters much like the movement of water and wind. If you learn calligraphy you would understand. Each character is a singular word representing balance and harmony, never hard or stiff. If you pay attention, even the most “hard” and defined lines are never completely straight, there are curves with each stroke.
mochiXmanju

hahahaha. Ohmigod! My parents do the exact same thing of writing anything and everything on the mail!
chanman

Well yeah, but where one ends and another begins is supposed to be defined, and i've never been that good at Chinese writing (I know the characters, my handwriting just sucks). There's just something different about it from Latin character handwriting.
sfgirl33

typical fob mom handwriting!
adamhs

It's funny because my parents used to leave us notes all the time on random scraps of paper, junk mail, and old envelopes!
Matoda

Your mom can spell “phoenix” but not “Harry”? LOL.
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