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Comment on Just Married by D

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:45:51 +0000

Love ya, too, my little little bear! xxxxxx

Comment on Just Married by Xophmeister

Xophmeister — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:14:39 +0000

Hug xx

我爱你，我的兔兔！

Comment on Just Married by D

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:06:13 +0000

L-I-K-E! xx

Comment on Just Married by Xophmeister

Xophmeister — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:48:04 +0000

…Once we’re on the other side of the Great Firewall

Comment on Just Married by Zheng

Zheng — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:06:05 +0000

LIKE.(photos?)

Comment on The Xophmeister Distance by Xophmeister

Xophmeister — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:09:30 +0000

After a bit of thought, I’ve also realised that it’s not complete syllabic transpositions that are important, but rather trans-syllabic transpositions (e.g., Spoonerisms) or, more generally, metathesis.

O, the myriad of phonological phenomena that send me back to the drawing board!…

Comment on The Xophmeister Distance by Xophmeister

Xophmeister — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:44:45 +0000

Maybe a good addition to this definition is that reduplication only incurs half the syllable cost (rounded to the nearest natural number). This is because it’s again a common phenomenon and, again anecdotally, doesn’t seem to be too expensive.

Comment on Building a Better Search Engine by The Xophmeister Distance | Xophmeister's World

The Xophmeister Distance | Xophmeister's World — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:23:42 +0000

[...] couple of posts back, we briefly touched upon the Levenshtein Distance: an orthographic metric which measures the number of edit operations (inserts, deletes and [...]

Comment on 你好 by Xophmeister

Xophmeister — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:51:37 +0000

好的！爱你 xx

Comment on 你好 by D

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:43:43 +0000

Well done, sweetie! The first syllable in “jiě jie” is not that difficult to pronunciate: just don’t let the idea that it needs to be falling then rising bother you too much. Because once you are doing the falling for a length of a full syllable then you won’t be able to squeeze any rising tone in. Just doing the flat-rising tone is fine xx