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POSTED BY: Lithi
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LITHI

Friday, April 15, 2005 5:21 PM

Hello everyone. I just joined this website. I am a native Chinese speaker (mandarin) and I read/write traditional chinese. I'm happy to be part of a firefly community and I will be more than happy to answer any questions anyone may have (to my best ability of course)

Lithi@EstateSerenity.net

SPOOKYJESUS

Friday, April 15, 2005 5:36 PM

You are very welcome!!!!!

I'm sure your ability to give original chinese swears for people writing fan fic will make you very popular!

MANWITHPEZ

Friday, April 15, 2005 5:37 PM

Hey! Congratulations on finding this site, you won't be disappointed. The more browncoats, the merrier the browncoats are!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

EMBERS

Friday, April 15, 2005 5:45 PM

Greetings Lithi! And Welcome!
There is a site here you might be interested in:
http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/index.html
(maybe you can discuss with them if you find any errors)
Also you might want to look at some of the old episode discussions,
feel free to revive any thread that interests you because none of us are tired of discussing the show!

Have you watched any of Joss Whedon's other shows (ie Buffy or Angel)?
Or have you read any of his comic books?

Have fun checking out 'The Blue Sun Room' where all the fanfic and WPs reside.

And did I say 'Welcome!'?

CHANNAIN

Friday, April 15, 2005 5:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Lithi:
Hello everyone. I just joined this website. I am a native Chinese speaker (mandarin) and I read/write traditional chinese. I'm happy to be part of a firefly community and I will be more than happy to answer any questions anyone may have (to my best ability of course).

*presents a whole bottle of really fresh wine, wrapped in shiny paper with a big red bow*

Welcome! Your expertise will be greatly appreciated. Speaking as one who is about to be writing a Chinese character, I would like to be able to humbly call upon your services. In fact, there's a couple of lines from a fan fic I already finished that I'd like checked out, if you don't mind.

I have a question too - did the Chinese language spoken in the series come across as authentic to you, or send you into fits of giggling from the mismanagement? I mean both in terms of the language and the accents.

DIETCOKE

Friday, April 15, 2005 6:03 PM

Welcome! Where are you from? Englewood, NJ here, just outside NYC.

PIFFLE101

Friday, April 15, 2005 6:50 PM

I just joined too. Cool, I'll ask for help with Chinese later.

You are such a boob

SIGMANUNKI

Friday, April 15, 2005 7:42 PM

Welcome to the fold

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"Canada being mad at you is like Mr. Rogers throwing a brick through your window." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

IMEARLY

Friday, April 15, 2005 7:49 PM

歡迎到最佳的螢火蟲網站在地球上

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欢迎到最佳的萤火虫网站在地球上

It's the best I can do.

Go sign my Guest Book,
http://www.geocities.com/thisbrownhouse
Then download Serenity,
http://homepage.mac.com/rocketplane/FileSharing8.html

EMMA

Friday, April 15, 2005 8:12 PM

Hoorah! Hoorah! Hoorah!

Another member for the Whedonite-empire, by September we will have enough to take over the world......

mwahahahahahaha

I really should get me a signature

LITHI

Friday, April 15, 2005 8:31 PM

Thank you Ember

I have actually visited this website before but just decided to sign up as a member :)

LITHI

Friday, April 15, 2005 8:35 PM

OOOOooo. Thank you for the fresh wine, but aren't wines better with age? I'll keep my bottle for a few years then.

If you link me, or email me, I'd be more than happy to check out your lines.

The pronounciation in the shows are actually pretty bad. I watch with closed caption turned on so I can "read" whatever they are supposed to say. But I loved the concept of that in the future everyone speaks Chinese.

Lithi@EstateSerenity.net

LITHI

Friday, April 15, 2005 8:36 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by dietcoke:
Welcome! Where are you from? Englewood, NJ here, just outside NYC.

I'm from Virginia, about 1 hour west of DC.

LITHI

Friday, April 15, 2005 8:41 PM

Hi, thank you for the welcome. Here is a little tip for composing a Chinese sentence. The logic of putting different parts together is to start big and work towards the small.

In English, I would say that I'm from Winchester, Virginia, USA, Planet Earth.

In Chinese, I would have to say that I'm from Planet Earth, USA, Virginia, Winchester City.

Your sentence would be best arranged as follow:
[welcome to][on this earth][the best firefly website]

Hope that helped :)

Lithi@EstateSerenity.net

DIETCOKE

Friday, April 15, 2005 9:57 PM

Oh, my! This could start a whole Chinese swear words thread!

IMEARLY

Friday, April 15, 2005 11:23 PM

Quote:
Your sentence would be best arranged as follow:
[welcome to][on this earth][the best firefly website]

歡迎在這地球上最佳的螢火蟲網站

Is that better? It feels weird.

Go sign my Guest Book,
http://www.geocities.com/thisbrownhouse
Then download Serenity,
http://homepage.mac.com/rocketplane/FileSharing8.html

LITHI

Friday, April 15, 2005 11:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ImEarly:

Quote:
Your sentence would be best arranged as follow:
[welcome to][on this earth][the best firefly website]

歡迎在這地球上最佳的螢火蟲網站

Is that better? It feels weird.

Yes, that's much better. Do you use Big5 or GB? Just add "come to" after "welcome" and it'd be a great sentence.

IMEARLY

Saturday, April 16, 2005 1:43 AM

Quote:
Yes, that's much better. Do you use Big5 or GB? Just add "come to" after "welcome" and it'd be a great sentence.

I use neither, it’s homemade. It was created specifically for Latin, as a tool for my novel.

I wanted to learn Japanese, and when experimenting with various Hiragana and Katakana one cannot ignore Kanji. This led me to want to learn Chinese. I was surprised how difficult it was for me, and frankly I have been sticking to Japanese, which is easy.

I use the tool, mainly to communicate with people who do not speak English online.

Go sign my Guest Book,
http://www.geocities.com/thisbrownhouse
Then download Serenity,
http://homepage.mac.com/rocketplane/FileSharing8.html

LITHI

Saturday, April 16, 2005 2:46 AM

I took Japanese classes as well. With my Chinese and English backgrounds, I too found it quite simple.

Lithi@EstateSerenity.net

SOUPCATCHER

Saturday, April 16, 2005 6:51 AM

Welcome Piffle101 and Lithi!

It's amazingly cool that the community is still growing strong .

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Next up: Early "Nutcrusher" Jubal and the Firebuggers

FANTASTICLAUGHINGFAIRY

Friday, April 22, 2005 4:31 PM

Hi! I'm new too! It's great that so many people from loads of countries are joining, but it's great that you can speak Mandarin. Any original phrases to say to someone who's really annoying you. I would be very greatful. I can only speak English and a bit of Welsh and French.

...and we will call it...this land...

LITHI

Friday, April 22, 2005 4:45 PM

"Ching ni chu si" = please go get yourself killed

Lithi@EstateSerenity.net

CHANNAIN

Friday, April 22, 2005 4:58 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Lithi:
"Ching ni chu si" = please go get yourself killed

Totally adding THAT to the Gunrunners RP glossary!

Fans come and fans go...but zealots are with you until the bitter black end.
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JOSSISAGOD

Friday, August 12, 2005 7:54 PM

Some of the Chinese is actually subtitled [Chinese] However, the subtitles are often wrong. I would love to learn how to pronounce a few swear words and perhaps "little sister", for some close female friends.
welcome to the "Verse.
Do the "Chinese:For Dummies" books have honorific pronounceations? for instance "Little sister," I doubt it.

LITHI

Friday, August 12, 2005 9:00 PM

JOSSISAGOD,

mei mei is one of the easiest phrase to pronounce. I am uncertain if your post was a question or a statement.

Lithi@EstateSerenity.net

JOSSISAGOD

Saturday, August 13, 2005 4:50 AM

thanks for the reply,
actually, my post was ment as a question, I suppose I could have added a few question marks to make it a little easier to tell.

Sorry for the confusion,
JOSSISAGOD

KAYLEERULESALL

Saturday, August 27, 2005 11:42 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by dietcoke:
Oh, my! This could start a whole Chinese swear words thread!

one can only hope!

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When the stars shine bright through the engine's trail and the dust of another world drops behind; When my ship is free of the open sky, its a damn good day to my way of mind; Theres a barren planet you never can leave, theres a rocky valley where we lost a war; Theres a cross worn 'round a soldier's neck, theres a man's faith died on Serenity's floor, but i stood my ground and ill fight once more; Its the last oath that i ever swore

BLACKISBLACK5891

Wednesday, September 7, 2005 5:25 PM

Yeah i just joined to...i've only just gotten into Firefly/Serenity....only watched the series earlier in the year on dvd...didn't even know that it came out here. BTW i live in Australia.
Well thats all
i'll ask about chinise later!

FLAMETREE

Friday, October 7, 2005 8:49 AM

Huanying blackisblack5891 and other new members!

welcome to site.

I hope you enjoy the movie as much as tv series.