Ding and Ning. Ning the Ding. Ding not Ning. I am very sorry for the repeated alteration of display names which all sound the same. I got confused too while colouring the conversation, but I hope the colours help.
It all started when The Creature got sent a song (Moon, aka Yue Liang Dai Biao Wo De Xing) by The Object. The song brought back a lot of memories that The Creature couldn't precisely place, so it dug in the back of its head and came up with a fossilised zi that looked like this and started off all the randomness:Schistocerca gregaria says:
I wrote the word 'ding'
*ning wants yong tau fu. now. (amongst other things) says:
what ding?
Schistocerca gregaria says:
like cauldron
Schistocerca gregaria says:
ding (di san sheng)
Schistocerca gregaria says:
carbon dating indicates it dates back to 2001
*ning wants yong tau fu. now. (amongst other things) says:
huh?
*ning wants yong tau fu. now. (amongst other things) says:
what ding?
Schistocerca gregaria says:
it's a word
Schistocerca gregaria says:
it means cauldron
*ning wants yong tau fu. now. (amongst other things) says:
what does it mean?
*ning wants yong tau fu. now. (amongst other things) says:
cauldron?????!
*ning wants yong tau fu. now. (amongst other things) says:
wth
*ning wants yong tau fu. now. (amongst other things) says:
what use does ding have in everyday life?
*ning wants yong tau fu. now. (amongst other things) says:
hahaha
Schistocerca gregaria says:
erm...
Schistocerca gregaria says:
wah look at the ding in the museum?
Schistocerca gregaria says:
went to british museum and saw dings and got very excited
*ning wants yong tau fu. now. (amongst other things) says:
sheesh tt made me LOL
Schistocerca gregaria says:
because never once when they taught us about dings did they actually show us what they looked like
Schistocerca gregaria says:
so ironic I had to come here to see that dings actually really have 3 legs
*ning wants yong tau fu. now. (amongst other things) says:
DING
*ning wants yong tau fu. now. (amongst other things) says:
DING
*ning wants yong tau fu. now. (amongst other things) says:
DING
*ning wants yong tau fu. now. (amongst other things) says:
(sorry i HAD to do that)
*ning -ding ding DING- says:
is ur Moon sitll on repeat?
DING says:
yeah it is
DING says:
MY MOON!
*ning -ding ding DING- says:
HAHAHA
*ning -ding ding DING- says:
ure DING
DING says:
hahahahaha
DING says:
see my display pic
DING says:
hahahaha
*ning -ding ding DING- says:
now we rhyme
*ning -ding ding DING- says:
im ning
*ning -ding ding DING- says:
and ure ding
*ning -ding ding DING- says:
HAHAH
DING says:
Ning and Ding!
*ning -ding ding DING- says:
ur dp
DING says:
Ding and Ning!
*ning -ding ding DING- says:
why are u PESS-ifying?
*ding says:
dunno
*ning -ding ding DING- says:
hahah
*ding says:
LOL ning the ding
*ding says:
*bangs head on table
*ding says:
*doesn't have a head to bang
*ning the ding says:
this makes NO SENSE
*ning the ding says:
hahah
*ning the ding says:
HAAHAH
*ning the ding says:
i just saw ur new nick
*ding not ning says:
(I wish someone were on both our contact lists)
*ning the ding says:
yeah man
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Regarding the Evolution of Song Names:
Qing Tian (Nice decent original name) ---> gu shi de xiao huang hua (first line of song, still a decent name) -----> Flower (English translation of part of first line of song) -----> Hua (Chinese translation of English translation of part of first line of song, which bears no resemblance to the original title whatsoever).
I should add that Hua thinks itself much superior to the ancestral Qing Tian. Sufficiently superior, in fact, to require divine creation rather than random mutation and selection in the minds of bored undergrads.
Sunday, 1 February 2009
DING DING DING and the Evolution of Song Names
Posted by Locustling at 08:02
Labels: Chinese, Study-induced fatigue
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