Life In 19x19

I've had this problem a lot. My name is unfamiliar to lots of people in southern England - shouldn't be but it is. In my observation, a lot of people just don't listen. It's not that they are deaf, but that they don't listen actively. I have an unusual surname which nobody ever gets right, so I ...

Maybe the sex war requires the occasional victim, and I'm still unsure of my final view on this. But the fact it was a goodwill match at home is tilting me towards thinking it was a bit like inviting an envoy to negotiate a truce while one of your soldiers goes off and bombs civilians. Maybe a more ...

trout wrote:Specially, JeaongGwanJang cup is about to change. Huang Longshi Jiayuan Cup will be only international woman's tournament.

The only one? Has the Bingsheng Cup been abandoned?

As a matter of curiosity, since there is probably a higher-than-average proportion of people interested in East Asian languages in here, which Chinese (or Japanese, Korean etc.) input method do you use? Like, I would guess, most Western Chinese-as-second-language students, I use a Pinyin-based input ...

I learned to touch-type a... er... few years ago, and I really like mechanical switch keyboards. For me, nothing else has the same decisive feel, and without it my error rate goes up measurably. My typing is quick and loud, just like me! My personal keyboard is a Matias Tactile Pro , though mine is ...

There is a TV interview featuring Joanne Missingham and Zhou Junxun posted on YouTube. Part 1. Part 2.

kokomi wrote:Is Joanne Missingham going? It would be encouraging to see a local pro

The dates overlap with the 2010 Asian Games in which JM is taking part, representing Chinese Taipei, though I don't know exactly when the weiqi events are scheduled.

Then where does her Chinese name come from? Joanne Missingham's Chinese name is 黑嘉嘉 （Hēi Jiājiā). I gather from articles I've read that 黑 is her mother's family name, so in English-language terms she has simply adopted her mother's maiden name as her Chinese surname. Her personal name 嘉嘉 was ...

I voted other. I follow the maxim: "You can't control others, you can control yourself". I won't pretend I never feel irritation at other people's behaviour, but that's my problem, and I'm working on it. It's a work in progress...

Why couldn't you just state, "Hopefully occasional escapes is something you can deal with, if not, well, then I guess you do need to go to a different go server" on the KGS page? Does anyone really need an explicit statement? When you go into a shop, do you see a big sign saying "We offer goods and ...

mdobbins wrote:Nothing follows you here, we are all born again from nothing.

Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From GoD, that was our home.

With apologies to William Wordsworth...

I'm pretty close to ambidextrous, though my handwriting with my right hand is neater than my left. And "intelligent people" is pretty close to a meaning-free expression.

I'd recommend you buy a couple of lectures, or try the free sample ones to get an idea of what the audio lessons are like. There are some lectures in French on the site, but only about thirty-five of them. My French is not good enough to assess the quality of these. Unfortunately none of the French ...