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Gai gherk (regular term)

Fung jow (fancy term)


(Not sure if there's any official spelling, but this is as close as I can get using English phonetics.)


Yes, har gow. One of my 3 favorites, along with fung jow and law bok go.

Yeah, my amateurish Bayesian analysis.

As for Cantonese, I learn partly via osmosis due to my proximity to NYC Chinatown.

Incidentally, I pronounce "foot" in Cantonese very well. Because I frequently order chicken feet for dim sum, although in my mind, I'm chewing "Phoenix Claws."

My goodness, how could I leave out Toronto?

Just a couple of weeks ago, I was talking to my cousin from Toronto.

Oh, I forgot to ask.

Who is the silver-haired person in your avatar?

I'm not enough of a C-drama expert to tell without seeing the face.

As much fun as we're having at its expense, let's not spend any more time dealing with this character. It's not worth it.

Both Columbia & Northwestern offer journalism at the masters level, but Columbia doesn't offer it at the undergraduate level, so it's possible that he went to either one of them.

Who knows?

Just curious if you speak Mandarin in addition to Cantonese.

Based on the "bubble tea" in your username, are you by any chance from HK, SF, NYC or, maybe, Vancouver?

A couple of MDLers who rated Reset 9 & 10, respectively, says that Mobius is (much) better. So take that for what it's worth.

With some uninvited guests (trolls) that try to crash the party, unfortunately.

At the risk of sounding elitist & self-serving, I'd argue top American universities do not generally offer vocationally-oriented degrees such as journalism (especially at the undergraduate level). The only exceptions are Columbia, a backup school for
Harvard, MIT, Stanford, etc. rejects & Northwestern, a backup school for rejects from Columbia & other Ivy League schools.

Aside from that, for someone with 30 years of journalism experience, @etoks21 doesn't even bother to go to the original or even secondary source. That's bad enough, but it never occurred to him to do a simple fact-check of the MDL article.

It says that C-netizens were upset by the five gold stars on the carpet. So he says that that's something ridiculous to get upset over because there are more than five gold stars on the carpet.

But from what I understand, that's not what the C-netizens were pointing out. They were referring to the five-POINT stars on the carpet.

This @etoks21 character is an awful journalist, among other awful things.

Oh, I don't bother checking profiles because people will say they are what they want other people to think they are.

"Different strokes." I don't know if pun intended or not, but I loled!

By the way, if you notice the OP's two-sentence post (immediately above yours), this proves that s/he cannot help but lie. Both sentences are lies.

Oh, that's what I thought, but wasn't sure. So just asking for confirmation.

Also, I'm not sure @etoks21 identifies as a "he." Could be "it," for all I know.

Thanks for the kind words.

Just curious what you mean in your other reply to me by "he is like that."

Who is like what?

You feel so indifferent about my above comments that you responded.

Go back to watching cartoons in your mommy's basement, you little koreabooing troll.

Are you gonna be like...sure, whatever to this post & respond to it too?

This is high praise coming from someone who gave Reset a 10.

Because you were dying for me to like your comment for you. There you go.

And as usual, I liked my own comment as well.

All this "end of discussion" & blocking me nonsense is just your way of playing hard to get.

Because I live rent-free in your silly, little head!

Yes, Chinese citizens use VPN.

It's "illegal" in the sense that jaywalking is "illegal" here in the States. There's no way to enforce it & everyone does it anyway, so the authorities look the other way.

But let's look at your argument. If you say that Chinese citizens are using VPN to access Disney+, then presumably, they are using it to access other Western (non-Chinese) entertainment & media. So why on God's green earth, would they think that "free speech in the whole world is controlled by a one-party autocracy through chinese firewalls?" This is obviously a self-defeating argument.

So we have two possibilities:

1) you had no idea that this is a self-defeating arguments & that you actually believe what you were saying, which means you couldn't reason your way out of a deflated plastic bag of stinky kimchi;

2) you were actually under the mistaken impression that you were funny & clever but no one (especially not your mommy & daddy) had the heart to tell you that you're neither because you're a delicate snowflake that needs to boost its self-esteem by having Batman avatars to feel strong & brave when in reality you're a weak coward that insults 1.4 billion people behind their backs, again, to feel better about your sorry koreabooing self


Possibility #1: You have low IQ

Possibilitily #2: You have low EQ


So which is it low IQ, or low EQ? Or is it both?

Ok, at the risk of getting kicked out of MDL myself, I'll post your honest opinion about Chinese and Korean fans for you:

I, Juditnr1, the paragon of virtue that I am, am intellectually & morally superior to any and all Chinese & Korean fans, even though I probably don't know any non-trivial number of Chinese & Korean fans, don't read, speak, or write Chinese & Korean well, if at all.

I know all I need to know about any and all Chinese & Korean fans because I read several hundreds, ok, dozens of social media comments by alleged Chinese & Korean fans, even
though I have absolutely no way of verifying their identity. How? Let's see...oh, yeah, I forgot, I'm omniscient too, which would render this entire paragraph superfluous, so just ignore it.

Just know that I'm better than Chinese & Korean fans. That's all you need to know. Trust me.

Yeah, right?

Unfortunately, most if not all of them deleted their comments shortly after I pointed out the absurdity of their conspiracy theories.

But you should check out the comments section under the article re: C-netz reaction to the K-drama Tempest. Quite a bit of back-and-forth going on between C-drama & K-drama fans!