Comments on: Mary Poppins http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2007/11/mary-poppins/?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid= Home of the Beijing Sounds Studios: productions mostly of language through foreign ears Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:08:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: syz http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2007/11/mary-poppins/comment-page-1/#comment-43867 syz Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:59:45 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=8#comment-43867 Joe, Lovely to revisit this post with you (and a whole class?! that's an honor). The editing staff apologizes that you've had to wait so long for a response -- there was heated debating about the third line that you mentioned, so we had to check things out with a local. The result is some fixes above, but no one wanted to second your “改了马上” interpretation. Does this one ring true to you? Best from Beijing, syz Joe,
Lovely to revisit this post with you (and a whole class?! that’s an honor). The editing staff apologizes that you’ve had to wait so long for a response — there was heated debating about the third line that you mentioned, so we had to check things out with a local. The result is some fixes above, but no one wanted to second your “改了马上” interpretation. Does this one ring true to you?
Best from Beijing,
syz

]]> By: Joe http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2007/11/mary-poppins/comment-page-1/#comment-43380 Joe Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:58:34 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=8#comment-43380 Greetings from the CLI program in Guilin! With one of our teachers, we had fun using this as a bit of a challenge... the first break in the transcript, we finally realized that she was interrupted by a little kid faintly in the background asking when it was time to leave, and so the '完了' is actually wrong, though I sort of hear it too; she's saying "该了马上", and if you take out the '完了' and treat it as a response to the child in the background, it makes sense. This is definitely some advanced-level Kung fu, though. Greetings from the CLI program in Guilin! With one of our teachers, we had fun using this as a bit of a challenge… the first break in the transcript, we finally realized that she was interrupted by a little kid faintly in the background asking when it was time to leave, and so the ‘完了’ is actually wrong, though I sort of hear it too; she’s saying “该了马上”, and if you take out the ‘完了’ and treat it as a response to the child in the background, it makes sense.

This is definitely some advanced-level Kung fu, though.

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