| 10:02 |
shinohai |
O hai thimbronion how goes? |
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~ 24 minutes ~ |
| 10:26 |
asciilifeform |
!w poll |
| 10:26 |
asciilifeform |
err lol wrong window |
| 10:28 |
thimbronion |
shinohai: notbad. You? |
| 10:29 |
shinohai |
All good here thimbronion ... another boring day in the land of shitcoins. |
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~ 1 hours 22 minutes ~ |
| 11:51 |
thimbronion |
gregorynyssa: There's something odd about the use of 了here: 我只记得那个姑娘是个妖怪，它来找我，要杀了我。Why isn't the 了after 我? |
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~ 43 minutes ~ |
| 12:35 |
gregorynyssa |
asciilifeform: I thought I was the only one who made such mistakes. |
| 12:36 |
thimbronion |
It's surprising what ends up in the send buffer sometimes. |
| 12:37 |
thimbronion |
I recall an incident in which an employment contract was pasted in full. |
| 12:39 |
gregorynyssa |
thimbronion: Chinese is an SVO language. the "le" particle in a given sentence might come before or after the O, depending on habit. |
| 12:42 |
gregorynyssa |
in this case the "le" needs to come before the O, in order to show that it goes with "sha," not with "yao." |
| 12:42 |
thimbronion |
gregorynyssa: also in this case I'm not clear on what 了 indicates. It's not like the monster didn't want to kill him *before* coming to find him. |
| 12:44 |
gregorynyssa |
as explained by Charles Li in Reference Grammar (1989), the "le" is rather highly nuanced, and is not always used to denote past tense. |
| 12:44 |
gregorynyssa |
in this case, the meaning of "le" is causative. thus, the last part of the sentence means "wants to have me killed" as opposed to "wants to kill me." |