Comments on: what’s in and what’s out in chinese popular culture

By: kathyy

kathyy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:30:49 +0000

I’m from China but I don’t know what is 恶搞串烧 either

There are still a lot of people enjoy douban.com…I’m one of them

And I think “萌” is not so widespread,it’s only a proper word of animation and comic fans

Blog is interesting:)

By: vision

vision — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:17:20 +0000

just digged my way here and am laughing my head off. never realized how funny it is when you match these terms together.

as for 清纯/萌, they aren’t an exact match. Although frequently used to describe cute girls, it’s also used as the verb “like” under some circumstances.

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:16:09 +0000

Hi, Fiona. Are u still in Beijing? I’m looking someone to do a language exchange. Can we do an exchange? I’m a chinese girl, in Beijing. If u agree, pls contact me with this mail address: xujj82000@hotmail.com

By: Elliott Ng

Elliott Ng — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:01:43 +0000

Awesome post Fiona!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:34:30 +0000

A tiny correction here: it is 清纯(pure and chaste) instead of 清炖。”萌” comes from Japanese comics, is a more recent way for 清纯. Hope this makes it easier.

By: Sabina

Sabina — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:08:54 +0000

I think you’re right about the 清炖/萌, it definitely doesn’t mean sprouts. XD;

恶搞串烧 are parody videos, I think? “Buffy meets Edward out of Twilight”, that sort of thing.

跟贴 making a new post/thread (as follow-up to an original post/thread)
建楼 commenting on the original thread (with connotation of making it long and unwieldy)

…LOL I don’t wanna move to 开心网, not when Jarvis Cocker just got his own official page on 豆瓣!

By: fiona

fiona — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:57:27 +0000

Hey Nicki, thanks for pointing that out as I did switch the names of the columns in the English version, but that has been corrected now! All that time staring at the list clearly went to my brain!

By: Nicki

Nicki — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:29:36 +0000

Maybe I’m not reading it correctly but…did you switch the IN and OUT columns on the English translation?