The Off Topic Topic

[derspiess]

70 % off, and off to riot. 

[spoiler]I have not had nutella since I was a kid. Don't like it anymore.[/spoiler]

I have it maybe once a month, but my kids love it.  And of course their friends & cousins all know we have it, so they ask for it all the time when they're at our house.  That's probably how most of it vanishes.

[Liep]

I still love nutella. I started making my own, it's much more expensive that way but then it tastes better and isn't like 70% palm oil.

[The Larch]

70 % off, and off to riot. 

[spoiler]I have not had nutella since I was a kid. Don't like it anymore.[/spoiler]

I have it maybe once a month, but my kids love it.  And of course their friends & cousins all know we have it, so they ask for it all the time when they're at our house.  That's probably how most of it vanishes.

No love for dulce de leche at the despiess'?

[Eddie Teach]

I've had that stuff at Taco Cabana. Tasty.

[Savonarola]

Frenchmen amok over cheap Nutella:

https://twitter.com/kennyLebon/status/956481551621066753

The by-line on CNN.com read "It was like an orgy;" and I thought "Nutella orgy sounds like the premise for an Italian film."

[Jacob]

When did they introduce an official spoken language?

1932 - reconfirmed by the CCP in 1949 (which is the vote I was referring to).

I was really under the impression with China that only the written language was standardised until pretty recent times.

That's my impression too. There's significant pressure in places like Shanghai and Chengdu for people to adopt putonghua in favour of the local language.

[Valmy]

So why did we pick 'Mandarin' for this language if the word is 'Putonghua'? That sounds nothing alike.

[Razgovory]

So why did we pick 'Mandarin' for this language if the word is 'Putonghua'? That sounds nothing alike.

Mandarin is a word for "government official".

[Valmy]

So why did we pick 'Mandarin' for this language if the word is 'Putonghua'? That sounds nothing alike.

Mandarin is a word for "government official".

So I guess a take on 'the government language'. That is accurate I guess.

[Malthus]

So why did we pick 'Mandarin' for this language if the word is 'Putonghua'? That sounds nothing alike.

"Mandarin" = the language of Ming/Ching officials, or "mandarins" (a Portuguese term: the Chinese was Guānhuà, or "Official's speech", because it was used as a standard among officials; it's a combo of various regional northern dialects).

"Putonghua" =  "Common speech"

You can probably work out why the present-day Chinese government prefers the latter to the former. 

[derspiess]

No love for dulce de leche at the despiess'?

Fo sho.  But we have to drive across town to get the authentic stuff, plus the kids are slow to take to it.  My son likes it okay, but the daughter (reigning queen of contradictions in food preferences), says "it looks like poop" and won't try it.  Plus the shelf life is limited, so we don't keep it around 100% of the time like we do peanut butter, nutella, etc.

[mongers]

I still love nutella. I started making my own, it's much more expensive that way but then it tastes better and isn't like 70% palm oil.

Good man.

[The Brain]

How good is Nutella? I've never watched her show.

[Duque de Bragança]

Frenchmen amok over cheap Nutella:

https://twitter.com/kennyLebon/status/956481551621066753

The by-line on CNN.com read "It was like an orgy;" and I thought "Nutella orgy sounds like the premise for an Italian film."

Marco Ferreri strongly disagrees with you. Nutella is hardly enough. 

[mongers]

Frenchmen amok over cheap Nutella:

https://twitter.com/kennyLebon/status/956481551621066753

The by-line on CNN.com read "It was like an orgy;" and I thought "Nutella orgy sounds like the premise for an Italian film."

Marco Ferreri strongly disagrees with you. Nutella is hardly enough.