Thursday, June 14, 2007
It's surprising how wrong an impression you can get of a person when chatting online, especially when a) you can't see them, and b) they barely speak any english.So on a few occasions over the past couple of weeks, I'd spoken to a young chinese lad called sasa. It was quite a struggle, as he didn't really speak any english, and the translation tool he used was somewhat on the surreal side.
Talking to him though, I found it fascinating, how the entire structure of our respective languages were so completely different, showing how differing cultures produce entirely different ways of thinking, and seeing the world.
So anyway, while surfing on stickam recently, I noticed, and watched for a couple of minutes, a pretty chinese woman. There being no info on her profile page though, other than to state that she speaks chinese, I didn't go in to chat.
Moving on again, to this evening... I was sitting in my chatroom, just listening to some music, when who should wander in but that very chinese woman, who then proceeded to chatter away in a rather familiar, incomprehensible manner.
After a few minutes of swapping confused sentences, where clearly, neither of us had understood the other, she then said "I am sasa."
Young chinese lad indeed.
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Steve 1:06 AM [+]
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