the deluge junior size, if you will

Wachovia? Really? And now bailouts in Europe?

Go Citigroup. *Rah* Actually, this one makes me sad. My sister has her accounts there which I assume, only understanding about a tenth of what is going on, are FDIC'ed, but I noticed my 457 lost another percentage point which translates to no buying myself poolboys when I'm seventy. Life hard.

I've noticed it's a lot easier and funnier to stop looking at this as "the future of America" and instead look upon it as a morality play about socks. I haven no idea why socks, per se, but I know that if there's a lesson in greed in this, no one who needed the lesson learned a damn thing.

Somewhere, there's got to be a group of people running bets on who crashes next.

ETA: Fine! I feel betrayed by European banks! This is our crash and now they have to try and steal our economic death spiral attention! I resent it! *bitter* Just watch, Asia's next, because it's trendy for banks to fall. Dammit.

Comments

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Do you think I could get away with Cantonese? *chews lip* I've heard it's easier.

[quietus-x.livejournal.com]

I don't know. They use the same written language, which is TERRIBLE because it's all memorization and icons and stuff, none of this "sound it out" stuff. Unfortunately, according to the internet, Mandarin's better for business purposes, since it's used more widely. (Holy fuck Google says Cantonese has 9 tones, which is crazy; Mandarin only has 4).

CLEARLY THE OBVIOUS SOLUTION IS TO HUNT DOWN THE DREADED DRYER MONSTER AND MAKE HIM REGURGITATE OUR SOCKS. *waves torch* Who's with me?

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I AM! (OH GOD NINE TONES. I THOUGHT FINNISH AND ITS EIGHTEEN CASES WAS SCARY BUT THERE WAS NOTHING ABOUT TONES.)

*WAVES TORCH IN SOLIDARITY*

[quietus-x.livejournal.com]

Yeah, tones are a bitch. The only natural way to learn them is to have an elderly Chinese woman yell at you over and over until you can tell the difference between the two middle ones that sound almost exactly alike but not exactly exactly alike. Any other method and you just don't sound ~*~right~*~ when you speak.

On the bright side, there's no tenses or cases in Chinese, period, either spoken or written. Zip. Nada. Conjugation? What's that? :D

(PS: I want to lick your icon.)

not that I ever learned them ;D

[ender24]

"the same written language"
but no. Taiwan, Hongkong, Singapur, they all still use traditional Chinese letters.
Only communistic , mainland China uses simplified Chinese written letters.

Mandarin is de facto Chinese. Cantonese is just a dialect of the Southern Regions of China, including Hongkong, and Guangzhou Region.
I am fairly fluent in Cantonese because I grew up with it, but I understand zero Mandarin.

its comparable to German and Bavarian. There is the German language, and there is the dialect of Bavaria.
I am perfectly fluent in German, but if a true Bavarian would speak in his dialect to me, I would be completely helpless.

LOL, what quietus_x said

[ender24]

you are better off with mandarin XD

where the hell did you hear, that Cantonese is easier!??!