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I am slothful. by ammoniacal (4.00 / 1) #1 Sun May 14, 2006 at 08:06:10 PM EST

For the record, a late vote for persimmon's cover,
WHICH I AM TOLD CONTAINS ACCURATE CHINESE WORDS.

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Chinese by weihan (2.00 / 0) #2 Mon May 15, 2006 at 01:10:31 AM EST

Since I'm the self-appointed Chinese language pedant around here, I thought I would add something.

小人 does in fact mean "person of low position"

But it also means "mean person; villain"

-卫涵
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I AM TOLD IT CAN ALSO MEAN "CHILDREN". by ammoniacal (2.00 / 0) #3 Mon May 15, 2006 at 01:22:02 AM EST

Thanks!

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Not in my experience by weihan (2.00 / 0) #4 Mon May 15, 2006 at 03:00:58 AM EST

I've heard 小朋友 a lot, but never 小人. Maybe it's a Cantonese thing.

-卫涵
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: it's a chinese-american thing by persimmon (2.00 / 0) #5 Mon May 15, 2006 at 10:26:04 AM EST

As in third-gen Chinese-American piecing together little bits my mom taught me and bits I know from Japanese class and figuring the overwhelmingly non-Chinese speakers (erm, and readers) on this site won't know the difference.
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