打點滴 in English? Getting an IV

Just realized that I had no idea what 打點滴 is in English.

After googling around, I found that I do know what it is in English, getting an IV, except I can't map the two together. lol

Therefore, 打點滴 means getting an IV, and vice versa.

Die a thousand deaths

"Die a thousand deaths" was one of an expression I used in my writing and the editors suggested me to have it edited out.

Ended up, the salad words outta my disordered mouth had been used before by Mr. Hemingway himself in A Farewell to Arms.

"The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but once."
"Of course. Who said it?"
"I don't know."
"He was probably a coward," she said. "He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them."

Does Hemingway really believe that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but once" or "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave two thousand deaths"? Since I didn't read through the whole book, can't tell ya.

At least, here it is ... the context where the saying came from.

儞 ㄋ一ˇ ni 8-O

In Discussions on horses (馬上談), a segment of Dongpo Chan Xi Ji 東坡禪喜集, I came across this Chinese character that I have never seen in my life 儞:  

蘇東坡與佛印出城遊行。佛印謂坡曰。儞在馬上十分好。一似一尊佛也。坡答曰。儞穿一領玉衆裟。在馬上好。似一堆太牛屎也。印云。我口出佛。儞口出屎。隨從人呵呵大笑。

This is a character I couldn't even find when attempting to type it out independent of the input methods. Since I couldn't type it out, it's impossible to google it and verify its existence using the digital method.

Regardless, based on the information about the radical and the number of strokes, I found that 儞 is the archaic form of 你--sort of thou to you (singular format).

See the following more information on 儞:

1. http://dict2.variants.moe.edu.tw/variants/rbt/word_attribute.rbt
2. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%84%9E

Enliterate

Years back, I decided to create the word "enliterate" for the convenience of my writing because it sounds good.

Since the prefix "en" can mean "cause to be in a certain condition," I used the word "enliterate" to mean "make someone become literate."

Ended up, this word (and its variations) that I can't even find in dictionaries have appeared in various sources...

Enliterate

• http://www.unisa.ac.za/cedu/news/index.php/2012/08/school-workbooks-for-all/  
• http://www.trinicenter.com/winford/2003/May/112003.htm
• molteno 2011 annual report.pdf

Enliteration

• Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
• More...

So?

Thank God.  Now I don't even have to make an argument about whether "enliterate" is a word since it's been used before! lol 

Ratology Lingo Update

The discovering Ratology Lingo in process... new items are appended to the end of the list.

 

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Mickey mouse case?

Mickey mouse is small (since it is a mouse).

When I say "Mickey mouse case," I mean nothing big... small case.

Club Meds

After I came out of the psychiatric ward the first time, this gentleman I knew asked me where I had been. Not quite sure what to tell him and not wanting to lie, I told him that I was in Club Meds.

I wondered whether he might have thought it to be my ESL style of pronouncing Club Med, though.