This morning I walked to the bus stop behind a couple - an Asian girl and a white boy, who held hands as they walked.
He was barely taller than she was, and they talked quietly to each other. They each had a messenger bag; hers was yellow and faded, with a white design - maybe it was small flowers or polka-dots or something. His was green, my shade of green, equally as faded as hers, with chinese* writing on it.
When we got to the corner they leaned close to each other, and as the light changed they kissed, and she walked West while he walked North.
*To my Asian readers, what is the right way of saying that? I know there are tons of dialects, but I can't look at writing and know if it's Mandarin or Cantonese. Am I supposed to guess because since you weren't there, you won't know if I'm wrong when I say the writing was Mandarin, or am I supposed to leave it at Chinese, because at least you'll know exactly what I mean and will picture the right thing in your head?
He was barely taller than she was, and they talked quietly to each other. They each had a messenger bag; hers was yellow and faded, with a white design - maybe it was small flowers or polka-dots or something. His was green, my shade of green, equally as faded as hers, with chinese* writing on it.
When we got to the corner they leaned close to each other, and as the light changed they kissed, and she walked West while he walked North.
*To my Asian readers, what is the right way of saying that? I know there are tons of dialects, but I can't look at writing and know if it's Mandarin or Cantonese. Am I supposed to guess because since you weren't there, you won't know if I'm wrong when I say the writing was Mandarin, or am I supposed to leave it at Chinese, because at least you'll know exactly what I mean and will picture the right thing in your head?
Labels: City Livin, Commute, Interactive, Overthinking, People watching, Playing in SF, Pounding the pavement
posted by Green at 2/05/2008 09:37:00 PM
2 Comments:
Well. Chinese characters, as written language, do not differ between dialects - different dialects are just different spoken language. So if the character itself was a Chinese character, well, it is Chinese. Unless the writing was in another Asian language...
Sounds like you just described me and my boyfriend. Well, except for the messenger bags cause we're not cool enough to have those. :-D
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