Comments on: Tip of the turd http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2009/09/tip-of-the-turd/?&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/2009/09/tip-of-the-turd/comment-page-1/#comment-38117 syz Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:26:03 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=908#comment-38117 Randy, good to hear about more turd tip sayings. Apparently that part of the pie plays a larger role in Chinese linguistic consciousness than it does in English. Maybe we should start collecting shǐ jiānr sayings... Anyway, shǐ jiānr still makes me chortle every time I read it. Randy, good to hear about more turd tip sayings. Apparently that part of the pie plays a larger role in Chinese linguistic consciousness than it does in English.

Maybe we should start collecting shǐ jiānr sayings…

Anyway, shǐ jiānr still makes me chortle every time I read it.

]]> By: Randy Alexander http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2009/09/tip-of-the-turd/comment-page-1/#comment-37956 Randy Alexander Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:37:17 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=908#comment-37956 My wife hadn't heard this one, but knows a similar one with a different meaning: 吃屎都吃不着尖儿。 chī shǐ dōu chībuzhao jiānr. and a variation: 吃屎都吃不着热乎。 chī shǐ dōu chībuzhao rèhu. This means that a person is so slow that even when eating shit, they don't even have time to eat the point (or warm part in the variation). My wife hadn’t heard this one, but knows a similar one with a different meaning:

吃屎都吃不着尖儿。
chī shǐ dōu chībuzhao jiānr.

and a variation:

吃屎都吃不着热乎。
chī shǐ dōu chībuzhao rèhu.

This means that a person is so slow that even when eating shit, they don’t even have time to eat the point (or warm part in the variation).

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