Ah, that's not so bad — if everyone understood everything, you'd be out of a job!

Ha. Pretty much.

It's also rather convenient being geographically closer to China and, in HK's case, sharing a/2 language(s), I think. MTR to Lo Wu, cross the border on foot, that connects straight to the Shenzhen metro system, spend the morning at the electronics market, lunch, 6 hours in a spa, then back home to inhale some solder fumes. And, failing that, Taobao.

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Why? Makes for good memories!

Pennsylvania's Netflix tax [rss.slashdot.org] is going to do nothing but encourage alternative methods…

I think it's more a way to reinforce their sense of superiority — they're the only ones in the room capable of coherent speech, and deservedly so after all those years of study :o

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@skematica Sounds lovely.

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PSA. I think.

Any chance Google supports searching with regular expressions?

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I got worryingly fast on T9 in 2007–2008.

Good times…

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