It's always good to know that your birthday cake has undergone 'Elaborate processing'.
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Beth Kempen
"you and your family the warmth and sweetness" - cute English! I see there was kiwifruit decoration - back in the day in NZ (1950's -60's) it was called "chinese gooseberry", what's it called in China, Tim?
PS if I was a computer or spam instead of a "real person", then based on prior experience I could anticipate that the answer to the security sum will be 8 this time & 9 next time :) My guess is the security question is not generated by a real person?
Tim Van Gardingen
A lot of the English is like that here - i'll try to find some more examples at some point. I think maybe its something to do with the Chinese love of proverbs and inspirational messages, but I'm not sure. Mum has told me before that the Kiwi fruit was known as the Chinese gooseberry back in NZ. A while back in my last year at school, our form tutor gave us a quiz and I had to correct her question that asked 'where does the Chinese gooseberry come from?, as her answer was new zealand'. In China, they seem to call it 'strange fruit', but I only know that from badly translated signs. As for the actual Chinese word, I don't know yet.
Oh and the security on this website, security question included, is just plain annoying.
Beth Kempen "you and your family the warmth and sweetness" - cute English! I see there was kiwifruit decoration - back in the day in NZ (1950's -60's) it was called "chinese gooseberry", what's it called in China, Tim? PS if I was a computer or spam instead of a "real person", then based on prior experience I could anticipate that the answer to the security sum will be 8 this time & 9 next time :) My guess is the security question is not generated by a real person?
Tim Van Gardingen A lot of the English is like that here - i'll try to find some more examples at some point. I think maybe its something to do with the Chinese love of proverbs and inspirational messages, but I'm not sure. Mum has told me before that the Kiwi fruit was known as the Chinese gooseberry back in NZ. A while back in my last year at school, our form tutor gave us a quiz and I had to correct her question that asked 'where does the Chinese gooseberry come from?, as her answer was new zealand'. In China, they seem to call it 'strange fruit', but I only know that from badly translated signs. As for the actual Chinese word, I don't know yet. Oh and the security on this website, security question included, is just plain annoying.