Comments on: Zrrr, Zrrr! What does your police car say? http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2008/04/zrrr-zrrr-what-does-your-police-car-say/?&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/2008/04/zrrr-zrrr-what-does-your-police-car-say/comment-page-1/#comment-79946 syz Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:47:40 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=113#comment-79946 Chubb, that's a beautiful example. ABC dict lists 呲 as zī or cī, but it's perfectly clear from the context that it had to be the same sound that's in the recording in this post. Thanks for keeping this two-year-old post alive! Chubb, that’s a beautiful example. ABC dict lists 呲 as zī or cī, but it’s perfectly clear from the context that it had to be the same sound that’s in the recording in this post.

Thanks for keeping this two-year-old post alive!

]]> By: Chubb http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2008/04/zrrr-zrrr-what-does-your-police-car-say/comment-page-1/#comment-79945 Chubb Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:05:13 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=113#comment-79945 Was just reading a WJS interview in which Wei describes himself as having "呲儿"-ed into a Hutong to get away from the cops! Maybe that is the elusive zir 的 zi 字.... See it in its original context here (super interesting interview, too): http://www.cnd.org/HXWZ/ZK98/zk140-1.gb.html Was just reading a WJS interview in which Wei describes himself as having “呲儿”-ed into a Hutong to get away from the cops!

Maybe that is the elusive zir 的 zi 字….

See it in its original context here (super interesting interview, too):
http://www.cnd.org/HXWZ/ZK98/zk140-1.gb.html

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