China's Brue Ocean naval developments

[CountDeMoney]

Professor Stonewall Jackoff (PHD in Squee) wrote the book A Confederate in Chinaman land.

Nathan Bedford Fong's People's Cavalry in action.

[Darth Wagtaros]

If the Chinese are so impressed with Mahan, why are they building so many Subs?

SSGs and boomers can do a lot more damage these days than a dreadnought. 

[Tonitrus]

Professor Stonewall Jackoff (PHD in Squee) wrote the book A Confederate in Chinaman land.

Nathan Bedford Fong's People's Cavalry in action.

I see you PLA horses, and raise you with PLA babes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFkZHs_b7i4&feature=related

[CountDeMoney]

I see you PLA horses, and raise you with PLA babes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFkZHs_b7i4&feature=related

I just jizzed in glorious revolutionary spirit.

[Monoriu]

For he is an Engrishman!

I don't quite get the Engrish jokes, really.  A lot of Chinese have real trouble pronouncing "r" sounds.  What usually happens is they do the reverse - pronouncing "very" as "vely". This is particularly bad for Cantonese, because there is no "r" in the Cantonese dialect.  There are plenty of "l" sounds, though.

[Jacob]

Just because you married a slant-eye doesn't mean you have to passive-aggressively defend all gooks at all times, ya race traitor. 

1. I have whatever rights I reserve for myself, and employ them as I wish in whatever combination of passive and/or aggressive that pleases me.

2. There was no defending of anybody involved in my post at all.

3. The purpose of my post was primarily to point out to Caliga that he was being an ignorant twat.

[Jacob]

I don't quite get the Engrish jokes, really.  A lot of Chinese have real trouble pronouncing "r" sounds.  What usually happens is they do the reverse - pronouncing "very" as "vely". This is particularly bad for Cantonese, because there is no "r" in the Cantonese dialect.  There are plenty of "l" sounds, though.

As you're probably aware, the Japanese tend to confuse L and R when speaking English. It's simply that people are applying 80s Japanese stereotype humour to the Chinese today because they can't really tell the difference.

[Jacob]

I just jizzed in glorious revolutionary spirit.

My favourite was a cop I saw about a year ago, slightly less in the hotness factor I think (the pictures were pretty grainy anyhow) but I think you'd approve.

Some jackass had taken someone hostage at a bank-machine. He had a gun to the victim and was yelling whatever his demands were, keeping the police at bay.

This woman, a cop but dressed like some average office worker in a sensible yet tight skirt, pumps and a nice blouse, makes like a regular pedestrian for a bit, then walks up to the perp, pulls out her handgun and shoots him dead from right up close.

That's her job; police assassin, no muss no fuss, just another day at the office.

When I saw that I thought I might have found your dream date. Sadly I didn't know how to get her number for you.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I don't quite get the Engrish jokes, really.  A lot of Chinese have real trouble pronouncing "r" sounds.  What usually happens is they do the reverse - pronouncing "very" as "vely". This is particularly bad for Cantonese, because there is no "r" in the Cantonese dialect.  There are plenty of "l" sounds, though.

As you're probably aware, the Japanese tend to confuse L and R when speaking English. It's simply that people are applying 80s Japanese stereotype humour to the Chinese today because they can't really tell the difference.

Yes, where English has both the l and r sounds Japanese only has the sound intermediate between the two. They can learn to say both sounds but may still have problems actually hearing the difference. I found that saying l and thinking r got my pronounciation of the Japanese sound roughly correct. Meanwhile Russian apparently uses all 3 of these sounds 

[jimmy olsen]

I don't quite get the Engrish jokes, really.  A lot of Chinese have real trouble pronouncing "r" sounds.  What usually happens is they do the reverse - pronouncing "very" as "vely". This is particularly bad for Cantonese, because there is no "r" in the Cantonese dialect.  There are plenty of "l" sounds, though.

As you're probably aware, the Japanese tend to confuse L and R when speaking English. It's simply that people are applying 80s Japanese stereotype humour to the Chinese today because they can't really tell the difference.

Yes, where English has both the l and r sounds Japanese only has the sound intermediate between the two. They can learn to say both sounds but may still have problems actually hearing the difference. I found that saying l and thinking r got my pronounciation of the Japanese sound roughly correct. Meanwhile Russian apparently uses all 3 of these sounds 

L and R just sound completely opposite to me.

Koreans don't seem to have that much trouble with R, but they absolutely butcher V and Z. Thankfully those letters are a lot less common.

[Monoriu]

This reminds me of one of my high school teachers.  She was 100% Chinese, but generally spoke almost perfect English. 

Except when it comes to the "R" sounds.  She just couldn't do it.  Once, she kept saying "lula" to us, and the whole class was confused.

She actually meant ruler.

[Admiral Yi]

L and R just sound completely opposite to me.

Take note of the position of your mouth and tongue while pronouncing both.  They're very close.

[jimmy olsen]

L and R just sound completely opposite to me.

Take note of the position of your mouth and tongue while pronouncing both.  They're very close.

No they don't.

Maybe it's my New England accent but, the L sound comes from the front of the mouth as the front of the tongue moves up and forward. R comes from the back of the mouth as the back of the tongue moves up and the front moves down.

[Josquius]

As Tim says. L comes very much from the front whilst R is like a growl, very from the back of the throat. Though I can't detect much tongue movement with R.


L&R being mixed up- I have far more often seen that as a stereotype of Japanese than Chinese. I've only ever encountered it with Japanese too.
However in the old TV series Mind Your Language it was the Chinese character (a crazy Maoist) who always got them mixed up whilst the Japanese guy just stuck to adding o and u to the end of sentances. Wonder if this means it used to be more a Chinese stereotype or they just decided to share out equally the oriental mistakes.

[Caliga]

3. The purpose of my post was primarily to point out to Caliga that he was being an ignorant twat.

As the board's resident gauche motherfucker, I thought it was my job to be an ignorant twat.

No but seriously, while I've known many Chinese-Americans, the only actual Chinese immigrant I regularly interact with is the owner of the Chinese restaurant in town.  I don't reall noticing her screwing up her 'r' and 'l' sounds, but she has this way of speaking English but making it sound like it's not English.

Example: English - Thank you, have a good night.

Her broken English - Tank-yu haa gu-naa.