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It is 1:40am in Sydney, Australia. 28Oct 04Thu 2005 E-Mail from China Spending six or 12 months in China seems to be popular these days and it's always interesting to hear about people's adventures abroad. I thought this latest e-mail from Kev was highly entertaining: I went to Pingyao last weekend, which required a 13 2005 hour overnight train from Beijing. Pingyao is a 2005 small city with a population of only 50,000 and is the only city in China with a fully intact Ming dynasty wall. The train trip was pretty memorable. Last week in Chinese class, I quizzed the teacher on Chinese swear words. He was actually quite willing, even when I asked him to grade different words in terms of severity. If you haven’t heard before, “Dongxi” means “things” in Chinese. You can refer to just about anything as “Dongxi”, except people. If you say to someone “Ni bu shi dongxi” or “Ni meiyou shenme dongxi” this means something to the tune of “You’re worth nothing” or “You’re a piece of shit”. My teacher told me it was a ‘cultured’ way of swearing, if there is such a thing.
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