http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2007/12/on-knowing-what-to-listen-for/?&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 http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2007/12/on-knowing-what-to-listen-for/comment-page-1/#comment-46651 Cindy Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:55:57 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=12#comment-46651 Nice post! Yeah you can definitely tell the first was an re-enactment, few Chinese people ever pronounce an apology that slowly and clearly. And instead of that optional sorry your friend mentioned, we beijingers also often say "bu4 hao3 yi4 si1". "dui bu qi" just sounds kinda serious, you know? it's like in English how people like to say "oops, my bad" instead of "I am sorry". I have to admit though the expression "my bad" used to get on my nerves, it seemed a tad insincere, actually, it didn't even SOUND like an apology, but after a while I realized that's how a lot of Americans talk, especially among the younger folks. And after reading you post about the jiu deng le, I realize our "apology" eluded you for a second as well, Guess we all got our quirks. Nice post! Yeah you can definitely tell the first was an re-enactment, few Chinese people ever pronounce an apology that slowly and clearly. And instead of that optional sorry your friend mentioned, we beijingers also often say “bu4 hao3 yi4 si1″. “dui bu qi” just sounds kinda serious, you know? it’s like in English how people like to say “oops, my bad” instead of “I am sorry”. I have to admit though the expression “my bad” used to get on my nerves, it seemed a tad insincere, actually, it didn’t even SOUND like an apology, but after a while I realized that’s how a lot of Americans talk, especially among the younger folks. And after reading you post about the jiu deng le, I realize our “apology” eluded you for a second as well, Guess we all got our quirks.

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