BS: Vote in Chinese if you can

Subject: RE: BS: Vote in Chinese if you can
From: Haruo
Date: 05 Nov 04 - 01:55 PM

But of course sushi is pickled rice, not raw fish (sashimi). Sashimi is the most popular topping/filling for sushi, but by no means the only one. (Egg; cooked fish; vegetables...)

Haruo

Subject: RE: BS: Vote in Chinese if you can
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 03 Nov 04 - 08:59 PM

shengyu=raw fish in Mandarin

Subject: RE: BS: Vote in Chinese if you can
From: Once Famous
Date: 03 Nov 04 - 05:39 PM

Make mine not too spicy.

Subject: RE: BS: Vote in Chinese if you can
From: Haruo
Date: 03 Nov 04 - 05:23 PM

Actually, I had sushi. Very good sushi, FWIW. And I wrote myself in (in English) for Congress. FWTW. I wonder how one says (and writes) "sushi" in Chinese.

Haruo

Subject: RE: BS: Vote in Chinese if you can
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 04:01 AM

Ah so [ yes ]

elic

Subject: RE: BS: Vote in Chinese if you can
From: Dead Horse
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 03:55 AM

Do you get noodles with that?

Subject: BS: Vote in Chinese if you can
From: Haruo
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 08:23 PM

(English follows)

Morgaŭ matene okazos la usona balotado. Mi sidos 14 horojn en lernejo, akceptante de voĉdonantoj iliajn balotilojn. Iam dum tiu longa tago mi petos de unu el miaj kundeĵorantoj balotilon en cxina lingvo (ĉar usona leĝo postulas, ke ĉiu en mia kantono rajtu baloti aŭ angle aŭ ĉine) kaj mi plenigos ĝin kaj metos ĝin en la balotovorilon. Nepre ankaŭ vi, se vi estas usona civitano kaj ne jam voĉdonis, ne maltrafu la okazon, kaj se vi estas en Kantono Kinga, mi volas instigi ankaŭ vin fari tion ĉine (se vi ne scipovas la ĉinan, kunportu liston de la balotendaj projektoj por gvidi vin laŭ la numeroj (897,884, 892, 55 ktp); la kandidatnomoj aperos anglaliterume en la ĉina balotilo).

Tomorrow morning the US election will take place. I will sit for 14 hours in a school, receiving from voters their ballots. At some point during that long day I shall request from one of my coworkers a Chinese-language ballot (because US law postulates that everyone in my county should have the right to cast a ballot in either English or Chinese) and I shall fill it out and insert it into the machine that eats the ballots. If you are an American citizen and have not yet voted, be sure to vote, and if you are in King County, I want to encourage you, too, to do so in Chinese (if you don't know Chinese, bring with you a list of the measures to be voted on so you can vote by the numbers (897, 884, 892, 55, etc.); the candidates' names will appear in English ortography on the Chinese ballot).

Haruo

PS: In my Chinese voters' pamphlet, my legislative district is missing. Also, the pamphlet gives the Socialist Workers' Party's email address as the contact email for both the SWP *and* the *Constitution Party*!!