pkrishna10
08-29-2005, 06:29 PM
Hi
I am 23 and I really liked this chinese girl(27 years old)..we knew each other for almost a year ..but the only problem is when i asked her out,she told me sher prefers white guys ..now i feel like a jerk by embarassing her.please tell me how to say this in mandarin (since i am indian)
"Sorry..I didnt know you prefer white guys ..but I can still be your rabaddi friend!"
P.S:you dont need to translate "rabaddi"
Please help me out here.I dont want to lose her.
Thank you very much
joelstrouble
08-29-2005, 07:42 PM
Here is a site you might want to look at
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=translate
sheila4pd
08-29-2005, 07:48 PM
I am a translator and those machine translations can be quite unpredictable... if you do not want to say something crazy, better say it in English.
Once, to impress me, my boyfriend had "Good morning baby" translated into Spanish, and it came out "The baby of good days". :rolleyes:
DSpring
09-01-2005, 01:29 PM
oh those rascally chinese....
speaking of chinese...y'all should read the little chinese seamtress by uhh...hmmm ha jin , i think? contemporary author...being made into a movie now too...a nice breezy book....
CurlyHairedOne
09-01-2005, 03:18 PM
umm... why do YOU feel like a jerk for asking her out? I mean its not like you knew she preferred white guys until you asked right? And even so, she is just being a bigot. Screw it and move on. There are better out there for ya. Oh and as a professional linguist I can tell you that unless you get another mandarin speaker to help you, (one you trust) don't bother trying to impress her with your skills in her language. At this point it is not going to help.
Remember Mr. Krishna, what slogan Indian Prime Minister Nehru coined during his 1955 China visit?? Hindi Chini Bhai ! Bhai ! (Indians and Chinese are Brothers!)
The slogan was much uttered by the Indian leaders... right up to 1962 Indo-Chinese War!
tell it to her....even if this fail to melt heart of this stone-hearted daughter of Mao...cut loose...!!
Peace and prosperity in Asia depends on you Indian and Chinese...
Don't start another war..!!!
Best of luck !!