"watching" tangential post
tv and movie writers are bereft of thought
i've been binge watching syfy and crime procedurals and comedy television shows AND movies of all genre and while i haven't counted the exact number of instances i can say with a small amount of certainty the phrase most written by the imposters of thought is,
"are you ok?"
gawd, i'd like to tweak some noses and flick some ears
@rookie54 saidPerhaps you could expand your horizons and watch some shows in Mandarin. Maybe then (sorry for the lack of tone indicators) you could pick up some of the more common phrases, such as:
"watching" tangential post
tv and movie writers are bereft of thought
i've been binge watching syfy and crime procedurals and comedy television shows AND movies of all genre and while i haven't counted the exact number of instances i can say with a small amount of certainty the phrase most written by the imposters of thought is,
"are you ok?"
gawd, i'd like to tweak some noses and flick some ears
mei shi, mei shi (I'm okay)
mei guan shi (no problem)
wo bu zhi dao (I don't know)
zhi dao le (Got it)
zou! (Go! -- in subtitles this often gets expanded a little)
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@Arkturos saidThat should have been:
mei guan shi (no problem)
mei guan xi
(x in pinyin is a "sh" sound pronounced more toward the teeth, whereas "sh" is retroflex)
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That aside, I'm checking my budget before resubscribing to Paramount+ for Strange New Worlds S3.
I'm also halfway through "Godzilla Minus Zero" -- Wow! It's great even just as a human drama (which is why I paused -- more drama than I was prepared for), and something I appreciate is that even aside from the costumes and sets there's something very retro about how so many shots are composed. I imagine there were conscious echoes of mid-century film-making from both Japan and the West involved.
