I’m just collecting some quotes I’ve read recently on the differences between the two. from portrait of an LBX Speaking of laowai, that’s the other word that gets our goat. Laowai — along with dialectical equivalents: lowei, waigolo, gueilo, etc. — means “foreigner,” but it is the slang way of saying it compared with the [...]
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laowai (老外) vs waiguoren (外国人)
September 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments
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a matter of taste
August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments
Watching the status updates of my distant friend’s lives fly by I started wondering about how tastes change. I saw a few people I know going back to the places they went to college and from there one or two mentioned how they’d gone back to their old haunts. It reminded me a bit of [...]
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Elsewhere on the internet…
June 30th, 2010 · No Comments
Some of the attention I used to put towards this blog I think has been diverted recently by those more micro- oriented sites Twitter and Tumblr (@rstadler and Tweedhouse respectively). That said, far and away most of my idle internet cycles have been ploughed into Quora lately (my profile being here).
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Celtics!!
June 15th, 2010 · No Comments
I was watching (well, not really watching so much as looking at the gamecast while simultaneously listening to an audio stream, video streams were just too crappy) for the NBA finals today and while looking for more commentary found some of these images which I was quite amused by. Most people in the office seem [...]
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USA! USA! (or, how much I am already enjoying the World Cup)
June 14th, 2010 · No Comments
I’m finally beginning to feel recovered from the havok being unleashed upon my sleep schedule by the World Cup. Games at 2:30 AM are especially difficult for me to watch because I don’t like staying awake straight through to 4:30 in the morning, but I also can’t really bring myself to go to sleep early [...]
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