Thursday, February 07, 2008
There’s a pretty interesting game show on this Taiwanese CNY (Chinese New Year) variety show. It’s a bit like charades. The fascinating bit about it is that the person who has to provide clues to Chinese words in ENGLISH. And you really see some of them eliciting amusing clues to their partners.
Take ‘101 Taipei’, for instance.
Okay I can’t remember how exactly she said it, but in short, it’s something like this:
‘You know, where you go up to kiss, kiss – very high (she begins gesturing something that is vertically elongated)… then 10, 9, 8, 7… 3, 2, 1, BWAM! Fireworks! (Here she begins gesturing fireworks shooting out from the centre, headed left and right, in the direction of top to bottom)…’
And the guy provides the right answer: 101 Taipei (in Chinese; I can’t remember what the Chinese name for that structure is though. Even so I can’t decipher it graphically because it is in traditional, un-simplified Chinese).
¶ 2/07/2008 05:01:00 pm Take ‘101 Taipei’, for instance.
Okay I can’t remember how exactly she said it, but in short, it’s something like this:
‘You know, where you go up to kiss, kiss – very high (she begins gesturing something that is vertically elongated)… then 10, 9, 8, 7… 3, 2, 1, BWAM! Fireworks! (Here she begins gesturing fireworks shooting out from the centre, headed left and right, in the direction of top to bottom)…’
And the guy provides the right answer: 101 Taipei (in Chinese; I can’t remember what the Chinese name for that structure is though. Even so I can’t decipher it graphically because it is in traditional, un-simplified Chinese).
