What is it with Chinese people and stating the obvious?
Literal translations......:rolleyes1:
-Have you come home? As I'm walking in through the door. No it's not me its my twin, a hologram etc.
-Have you eaten yet? As I'm cooking, walking into/out of a restaurant/actually eating.
-Are you going out? As I'm going out/coming home.
-It's raining! When I can see it's raining.
I mean is it really worth wasting your time dignifying a response?
Re: What is it with Chinese people and stating the obvious?
Stupid questions can best be answered by stupid answers/replies!
What I hate is Chinese asking me if I'm American/Russian. If they ask me that, my reply is: "Are you Japanese?"
While they could have just asked me which country I'm from.
Coming out of restaurant, (while they have been standing there for hours and can obviously see I just come out of another restaurant) trying to lure me into their restaurant. I'll reply "bao de yao tu le"
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The best is when laowais try doing this back to the Chinese.
Go ahead, and try it on your neighbors:
When you see your neighbor coming back from the store, say this: Mai le dongxi ma?/买了东西吗? (Bought some stuff?)
Guaranteed they will look at you like you're crazy. Why is this laowai asking me if I just bought something?
My point is, we can't understand it. And we [unfortunately] can't participate! haha
Re: What is it with Chinese people and stating the obvious?
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Originally Posted by
MotoKai
The best is when laowais try doing this back to the Chinese.
Go ahead, and try it on your neighbors:
When you see your neighbor coming back from the store, say this: Mai le dongxi ma?/买了东西吗? (Bought some stuff?)
Guaranteed they will look at you like you're crazy. Why is this laowai asking me if I just bought something?
My point is, we can't understand it. And we [unfortunately] can't participate! haha
Love that one can't wait to try it always getting asked are you going shoping as I am walking into the supermarket with my shopping bag.Usually I just say NO.That stumps them.
Oh you can drive a car while they are sitting in it. My response "Nope first time driving do you know where the brake is?"
Re: What is it with Chinese people and stating the obvious?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
MotoKai
The best is when laowais try doing this back to the Chinese.
Go ahead, and try it on your neighbors:
When you see your neighbor coming back from the store, say this: Mai le dongxi ma?/买了东西吗? (Bought some stuff?)
Guaranteed they will look at you like you're crazy. Why is this laowai asking me if I just bought something?
My point is, we can't understand it. And we [unfortunately] can't participate! haha
That is what I actually do. I live in hutong and every time i meet a neighbor I do ask one of the exact same questions: Hui lai le ma? Mai donxi le ma? Ni chuqu ma?
And I find that in this way they seem to think: oh, the laowai cares about exactly the same stuff as we do...