.. doing up a website in a language you aren't terribly familiar with. especially if it isn't romanised. in particular, the Chinese version of the English site I had recently finished designing for a client. Sure, I've been given a bunch of text and instructions on what to cut-n-paste and where, but my forgotten knowledge of Chinese characters is rather limited to start with and to be honest, I don't know what most of the stuff given to me means, and obviously they assumed i did. (for all you know they're saying "we're never wrong. any errors on this website are the responsibility of the web designer who worked on this Chinese version of the site, who, by the way, doesn't know Chinese".) that's what you get for being a banana*. well at least I know enough about the strokes in Chinese characters to make informed comparisons to ensure consistency within the site.. but I seriously need to re-learn Mandarin, properly...
Speaking of learning. I wanna learn the drums too. (Empress is gonna lecture me for this :-D)
*Person of Chinese origin who doesn't know Chinese (Bananas - white on the outside, yellow on the inside!)
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Dang. Thanks. Hail me, the schizophrenic banana!
Oo Chinese drums??? If you find a place to go can I tag along? :) Hehehe.
no dear, just regular drums. (speaking of which, can i be your student? :-D )
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