Chongqing

[ickaimp]

David just got a request back for a job interview thingie for a place in Chongqing, China.

Anyone know if it's a good place to live? Yes / no? Espeically for someone who doesn't know any of the language?

[Edit: Thanks for everyone's responses. If the interview goes well and David accepts the job offer, it looks like it would be one of those things that we'd go for a year, see everything we could and head back to Western civilisation. We'll see how it goes.

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[hoshi-ryo.livejournal.com]

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That last part...

One could use the same logic to argue that punctuation is not required -- as the tone is the vocal equivalent of the question mark -- as not all native speakers use it, either.

One could also use it to argue that the final particle 'ka' in Japanese is not required to make a statement a question, as sometimes native speakers will drop it as well.

You want to address this?

[hoshi-ryo.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Look, it's hard to explain in written form, because the best way to explain it is to provide an example of the lack of it in speech.

Think of it as trying to figure out what is intended by a person who never, ever uses punctuation when typing...and has just 'said' something which you simply cannot decide the meaning of from the context without at least some punctuation.

Or perhaps you may have experianced having to figure out which meaning of 'yes' somebody had used -- "Yes. (I understand.)" or "Yes? (I hear you, go on.)" It's the same word, but the nonverbal component can be much more important than the verbal...

( A lot of what I've focused upon is the nonverbal flags, as I am rather reliant upon some of them; there is some reason to suspect that English is merely the first secondary language I learned and that feline is in fact my primary language. )