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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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I’ve been reading through David Foster Wallace’s (wiki, fan site) book of collected essays Consider the Lobster (wiki) and am currently in the middle of the essay “Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think” re John Updike’s “Toward the End of Time”. I haven’t read any Updike but [...]

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I was browsing through somebody else’s bookshelf when I noticed one authored by Miranda July, titled No one belongs here more than you. (book site, amazon). I asked if it was the same Miranda July (wiki) who made that one movie I liked a lot, and then struggled to remember the name. She flipped open [...]

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Occasionally when I hear a song I haven’t heard before, I’ll make a mental note of some of the lyrics so I can go look it up later. When I do this, sometimes I’ll find the lyrics on some blog or other kind of site with comments and even though I know that internet comments [...]

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I thought this was pretty funny in, but it might be funnier out. as far as the amount of spread, my personal opinion is that asshole ibankers and/or brits spread it too much, but that middle america spreads it too little

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