Curses

Oct 07, 2005 12:45

Take one language geek. Turn her into a Firefly fan. What do you get? Uh, that would be me.

There's something awfully amusing about Mal cursing in Mandarin while trying to learn medical terminology in English. Surely "cyanotic" and "dilated" ("She was cynical, and her pupils were dilapidated!") can't be as hard to remember as ""Ching-wah TSAO duh liou mahng."

Also much amusement at Jayne's determination to use that damn line he spent so much time memorizing. He's such a total sociopath, I find myself watching eagerly for his 30 seconds of human screen-time per episode. In "Jaynestown" I think he got a full minute, even.

firefly, chinese, language

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