How do you say “You lie!” in Mandarin?

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 18, 2009 09:20 AM

Obama’s double-talk on political dissent
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009

President Obama traveled all the way to China to praise the free flow of information. It’s the only safe place he could do so without getting heckled. With a straight face, Obama lauded political dissent and told Chinese students that he welcomed unfettered criticism in America. Fierce opposition, he said, made him “a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions that I don’t want to hear.” How do you say “You lie!” in Mandarin?

While the kowtower-in-chief’s press shop feeds paeans to free speech into Obama’s globe-trotting teleprompter, the White House is still waging war on vocal foes at home. Obama has lectured his critics in Washington stop talking and “get out of the way.” He has stacked his carefully-staged town halls with partisan stooges and campaign plants throughout the year. The president recently derided limited-government activists in the Tea Party movement with a vulgar sexual term used by left-wing cable hosts Anderson Cooper on CNN and the MSNBC smear merchants (just Google “teabagging” and you’ll see what they mean).

And there are now more muzzled watchdogs in the Obama administration than on the sidelines of the Westminster Kennel Club show.

Most recently, two EPA lawyers critical of the “fatally flawed” cap-and-trade system –peddled by their agency, the White House, and the Democrat majority — were told by their superiors to yank a video they posted to YouTube explaining their views. Despite including a caveat that the opinions expressed were their own and not the agency’s, the couple faces possible disciplinary action by the feds. While demanding the video be yanked, the EPA disingenuously claims it tolerates all dissenting views of its employees.

The clampdown follows on the heels of the Obama EPA’s stifling of veteran researcher Alan Carlin’s dissent. He dared to challenge the agency’s reliance on outdated data to support its greenhouse gas “public endangerment” finding. Carlin’s report was squelched; his office is now on the chopping block.

In China, O proclaimed himself “a big supporter of non-censorship.” But his FCC “diversity” czar Mark Lloyd is bent on re-engineering public airwaves by redistributing free speech rights from conservative haves who earned their success to minority have-nots who demand talk radio entitlements in the name of “media justice.”

And among Obama’s closest advisers are a husband-and-wife duo who specialize in marginalizing and stifling the Democrat Party’s most effective enemies. Just days after White House interim communications director Anita Dunn – the administration’s resident Mao cheerleader and Fox News-basher – stepped down to take a planned role as a “consultant” behind the scenes, her husband Robert Bauer stepped up and shoved aside White House counsel Greg Craig.

The problem? Former Clinton lawyer Craig wasn’t tough enough for Chicago-on-the-Potomac. Obama needed an intimate ally who will put hardball politics ahead of policy and the law. Bauer fits the bill.

A partner at prestigious law firm Perkins & Coie, Bauer served as counsel to the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Obama for America. He has served as Obama’s personal attorney navigating the corrupted waters of former Democrat Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s pay-for-play scandals in Illinois. He also served as legal counsel to the George Soros-funded 527 organization, America Coming Together, during the 2004 campaign.

That get-out-the-vote outfit, helmed by Patrick Gaspard (the former Service Employees International Union heavy-turned Obama domestic policy chief), employed convicted felons as canvassers and committed campaign finance violations that led to a $775,000 fine by the Federal Election Commission under Bauer’s watch.

During the 2008 campaign, Bauer pooh-poohed GOP complaints about voter fraud. While decrying the Republicans’ “fear message,” it was Bauer who was on a fear-inducing crusade – pulling out all legal stops to silence conservative critics of Obama’s ties to the radical Left.

As I’ve noted previously, and in light of Obama’s self-serving praise for political dissent abroad, I note again: It was Bauer who lobbied the Justice Department unsuccessfully last fall to pursue a criminal probe of American Issues Project (AIP), an independent group that sought to run an ad spotlighting Obama’s ties to Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.

It was Bauer and his legal goon squad who attempted to sic the DOJ on GOP donor Harold Simmons and sought his prosecution for funding the ad. In a parallel effort launched the same week as Bauer’s legal efforts, a nonprofit called “Accountable America” spearheaded by a former operative of the Obama-endorsing MoveOn outfit began trolling campaign finance databases and targeting conservative donors with “warnig letters” in a thuggish attempt to depress Republican fundraising.

It was Bauer who tried to bully television stations across the country to compel them to pull the spot. Team Obama then summoned their troops to bombard stations, many of them owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Communications, with 93,000 e-mails to squelch the commercial.

With Bob “The Silencer” Bauer now working from the inside and Anita “News Commissar” Dunn working from the outside, Obama has a state media police apparatus the Chinese regime could love.

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  1. #1
    On November 18th, 2009 at 9:27 am, JHSII said:

    Yep, when I first heard Nobama lauding “Free Speech” over there I almost fell out of my chair laughing. Then I realized that he is all about Free Speech – over there.

  2. #2
    On November 18th, 2009 at 9:29 am, Misscheryl said:

    How do you say “You lie!” in Mandarin?

    It’s the same in every language. It’s “Barak Obama”

  3. #3
    On November 18th, 2009 at 9:30 am, JHSII said:

    It also occurs to me that, to Nobama, free speech is speech that he agrees with. All other speech is hate speech.

  4. #4
    On November 18th, 2009 at 9:33 am, stillontheroad said:

    I heard him squawking over in China about freedom of speech etc etc This clown talks out both sides of his mouth as well as his bum at the same time with such ease.

  5. #5
    On November 18th, 2009 at 9:34 am, JohnnyD said:

    And there are now more muzzled watchdogs in the Obama administration than on the sidelines of the Westminster Kennel Club show.

    Great line Michelle. It gave me the image of Obama running around showing off all of his “lapdogs” in the media.

    “….and the First Prize of the Washington DC Kennal Club goes to the MSNBC smear merchants.”

    Jocularity ensued!! Thanks.

  6. #6
    On November 18th, 2009 at 9:37 am, evilned said:

    Normally I would ask my wife, but she’s in China taking care of her sick mother.

    So I let Google to the talking. :)
    (And I hope it posts correctly)

    你說謊

    (You tell lies)

  7. #7
    On November 18th, 2009 at 9:50 am, BadIdeaGuy said:

    Good post- can we add to the list attempting to criminalize the opposition with the DHS rightwing extremist memo? And it won’t be too long before we get a czar controlling information on the internets.

  8. #8
    On November 18th, 2009 at 9:51 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    How do you say “You lie!” in Mandarin?
    Phonically?

    Shee_Ka_Gho

    But to be fair President Blue Lips w/Ears does listen to various opinions: Rahm Emmanuel and Axelshaft, MamaBama and Anita “News Commissar” Dunn and of course the Iranian Mullahess-Valerie Khomeini Jarrett . Such diversity of opinion makes him a better ayatollah.

  9. #9
    On November 18th, 2009 at 9:54 am, RedDog said:

    Cool evilned.

    This illustrates precisely why Conservatives have a long row to hoe. When information and the free exchange of ideas are controlled by the statists and their syncophant friends in the media, it becomes profoundly more difficult to win elections, much less change the direction of government.

    Apparently the Democrat voter will consider the real Obama only when they realize his goals do not meet with theirs. By then it will be too late for change – they will be slaves. This time instead of white plantation owners it will be a black marxist ruling them. How ironic.

  10. #10
    On November 18th, 2009 at 9:59 am, jangar said:

    Our little grasshopper must be having the time of his life learning at the feet of the original dictators.

  11. #11
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:02 am, purplepeep said:

    evilned said:

    Normally I would ask my wife, but she’s in China taking care of her sick mother.

    So I let Google to the talking. :)
    (And I hope it posts correctly)

    你說謊

    (You tell lies)

    Good idea to use GoogTranslate, EN. One problem though; I think we’d need it spelled out in phonetic English.

    Mandarin and Cantonese would both use the same Chinese characters, but there’s a likely difference in the pronunciation.

    So, to be a real pain in the backside, I’m just pointing out Michelle asked for the Mandarin dialect! :)

  12. #12
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:03 am, ctmom said:

    Which is why healthcare.gov only offers a letter of support to send to Barry. What a great leader.

  13. #13
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:03 am, Misscheryl said:

    WOW! purple – aren’t you just the smarty pants.

    :)

  14. #14
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:05 am, Misscheryl said:

    I tried to be critical of the prez on his washington.gov page. Unless I chose the supportive “option” on the comment section, it would not allow me to send my message. So, I checked the positive option and sent a critical message anyway.

  15. #15
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:06 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On November 18th, 2009 at 9:59 am, jangar said:

    Our little grasshopper must be having the time of his life learning at the feet of the original dictators.

    grasshopper=bass bait :evil:

    The Thrill of the Chase
    When using a grasshopper for bait, grasp it firmly on the thorax (where the four front legs come together). Hook it either through the abdomen behind the …

  16. #16
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:15 am, jangar said:

    ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    When using a grasshopper for bait, grasp it firmly on the thorax (where the four front legs come together). Hook it either through the abdomen behind the …

    We usually start under the chin and exit thru the anus.

  17. #17
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:17 am, purplepeep said:

    Misscheryl said:

    WOW! purple – aren’t you just the smarty pants.

    :)

    Well most folks do claim my brains are located somewhere in the back side of my britches, Misscheryl!

    But there is a saying about a conversation where one person is speaking Mandarin and the other Cantonese; “it’s like a chicken talking to a duck.”

  18. #18
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:18 am, b-cat said:

    Fierce opposition, he said, made him “a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions that I don’t want to hear.”

    That opinion would have to be heard during a basketball game for him to hear it.

  19. #19
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:19 am, purplepeep said:

    jangar said:

    We usually start under the chin and exit thru the anus.

    I sincerely hope y’all are still talking ’bout fishing there…
    :)

  20. #20
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:23 am, jangar said:

    Fierce opposition, he said, made him “a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions that I don’t want to hear.”

    So those nazi-like right-winger extremists are registering on your attention screen? Instead of ‘You lie!’, next time try ‘BS!’.

  21. #21
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:23 am, jangar said:

    I sincerely hope y’all are still talking ’bout fishing there…

    Sort of…

  22. #22
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:26 am, purplepeep said:

    jangar said:

    Sort of…

    LOL. Good midweek morning chuckle :)

  23. #23
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:28 am, graysonret said:

    If the government agrees with you, it’s “free speech”. If they don’t, it’s “hate speech”. So he is right in one way; he and the dems support free speech.

  24. #24
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:29 am, Dimsdale said:

    Waitaminnit!! I thought “Dissent was the highest form of patriotism”!???!

    I know that because many of my academic liberal coworkers bumper stickers say so!

    Maybe the bumper stickers have an expiration date. January 20th…..?

  25. #25
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:33 am, b-cat said:

    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:29 am, Dimsdale said:
    Waitaminnit!! I thought “Dissent was the highest form of patriotism”!???!

    I know that because many of my academic liberal coworkers bumper stickers say so!

    Maybe the bumper stickers have an expiration date. January 20th…..?

    Living in a university town, I can tell you that all of those bumper stickers have mysteriously disappeared.

  26. #26
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:42 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    With a straight face, Obama lauded political dissent and told Chinese students that he welcomed unfettered criticism in America.

    EPA Employees Silenced for Criticizing Cap and Trade

    Fierce opposition, he said, made him “a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions that I don’t want to hear.”

    Questions Obama doesn’t want to hear:

    1) Where is the initial birth certificate with the doctor’s signature and hospital name?

    2) There were 1,075 people who were involved in the Electoral College vote, the Congressional certification of that vote, and your swearing-in. Those 1,075 people represented every state and every branch of our federal government (538 Electors, 435 Representatives, 100 Senators, 1 Vice-President, and 1 Chief Justice). All 1,075 of them swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, which includes the phrase “a President shall have qualified“. Why is it that not a single one of those 1,075 people personally inspected an official birth certificate from the State of Hawaii, to prove that Obama was born at Kapi’olani Medical Center, as he has claimed?

  27. #27
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:43 am, jangar said:

    Living in a university town, I can tell you that all of those bumper stickers have mysteriously disappeared.

    Cuz us radical right-wing grasshopper disembowelers are on the loose :shock:

  28. #28
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:44 am, DBNinKY said:

    I am so glad you wrote this article, MM!

    When I heard him give that speech before those Chinese students, I had to laugh out-loud – I thought he was kidding!

    I mean, compounding the examples you cited of Obama’s demonstrable desire for “open” venues of political dissent, the administration’s recent war on FNC – one of the most vocal, well-publicized attacks on a major media outlet by any administration ever – alone should have given his speech writers pause to do some major editing of that speech’s content and phraseology: or did they think Americans back in the US wouldn’t hear it?!

  29. #29
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:46 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    More questions Obama doesn’t want to hear:

    Why was Obama’s birth location originally claimed to be the Queen’s Medical Center?

    Why was that claim latter scrubbed from the Internet?

    http://www.theobamafile.com/_images/ObamaQueensHospital.jpg

    http://www.theobamafile.com/_eligibility/IssueHospitals.htm

    http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaScrubbing.htm

  30. #30
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:48 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    More questions Obama doesn’t want to hear:

    Could this be the reason?…
    Queen Emma Kaleleonalani left the bulk of her estate, some 13,000 acres of land on the Big Island and in Waikiki on Oahu, in trust for the hospital that honors her.

    I’ve read elsewhere, but don’t know whether or not it’s true, that this Queen’s land was sovereign territory, like an American Indian Reservation. If true, that would mean that no child born there could be a “natural born citizen of the United States of America”.

    Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawai’i? (Paperback)

  31. #31
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:51 am, rocketman said:

    ***
    An American President talking about “rights” in Communist China???
    ***
    Remember the tank crushing the protester in Tieneman Square. Or the photos of “enemies of the state” getting the bullet in the back of the head as they are forced to kneel–and having their organs “harvested” by the state. Think about the 1 child policy and the FORCED ABORTIONS. Or China’s backing of the medieval North Korean King–and his murderous regime.
    ***
    Yes–Comrade Obama (PBUH) will throw anyone under the bus. He likes the style of the dictators around the world.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

  32. #32
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:51 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    I won’t concede that Obama was born on U.S. soil until a hospital birth certificate is made public.

    McCain released his. Why won’t Obama?

    Even if born on U.S. soil, the next question is how can someone born a subject of a foreign country be considered a natural born Citizen of the United States of America?

    Obama’s web site admits he was born a British subject because his father was a British subject.

  33. #33
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:51 am, iamsaved said:

    You Lie! That should be the moniker placed on this administration in history books. I’ve never heard so many verifiable lies come from one administration in my whole adult life nor have I read of any in past administrations before my time.

    And, there is no shame when caught spewing these lies. The criticisms just bounce off like water drops on a duck’s back and continue on unfettered.

  34. #34
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:54 am, DBNinKY said:

    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:42 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Speaking of Cap-’n-Trade, the local papers here in East KY and WV are filled w/ reports of mine layoffs and closings due to the EPA’s denials and delays in permit approvals.

    It’s shaping-up to be an unnecessarily disappointing Christmas for far too many innocent kids and miner families living in the coal fields.

  35. #35
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:56 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    More questions Obama doesn’t want to hear:

    Why was an opinion from the Hawaii Attorney General necessary in order for the Hawaii Director of Health to make her July 2009 statement that Obama is a “natural-born American citizen”?

    Why is that Hawaii Attorney General’s opinion being kept secret, when Hawaiian law requires that it be made public? (Since the AG’s opinion was used to make a public statement, the AG’s opinion must also be made public… it is no longer subject to attorney-client privilege once the client makes the conclusions public).

    Why did the Hawaii DoH say that Obama is a “natural-born American citizen” instead of a “natural born Citizen of the United States of America”?

    Does it depend on what the meaning of “is”, is?

  36. #36
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:02 am, iamsaved said:

    natural-born American citizen – pretty much everyone is “natural born”. That says nothing. It should have read “natural born” as described in the US Constitution for qualitifcation purposes.

  37. #37
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:02 am, LOBOMAN said:

    How do you say “You lie!” in Mandarin?

    YOU LIE

  38. #38
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:04 am, tre said:

    He needs to say:

    Dway-Boo-Che (I’m Sorry)

    to America.

    To you, Michelle, I say:

    Shoo-Shoo (Thank You).

  39. #39
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:09 am, KVal57 said:

    You rie, lound eye!

    Sorry, just couldn’t help myself…

  40. #40
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:12 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Obama is a “natural-born American citizen”? You mean he lied to the Germans when he said he was a citizen of the world? How would you say that in Mandarin?
    Shee_Ka_Gho_Too?
    =====
    Fish Bait
    Crickets and grasshoppers are good bait for bass and panfish. You can raise your own crickets, at the rate of 400 every 3 months, in a covered barrel or Shee_Ka_Gho………

  41. #41
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:18 am, MarcoPolo said:

    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:02 am, purplepeep said:

    So, to be a real pain in the backside, I’m just pointing out Michelle asked for the Mandarin dialect! :)

    Made me suspicious. What does she have against Cantonese, exactly? :)

    You rie

    Kval57, I lol’d!

  42. #42
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:21 am, happy2behere said:

    I thought the Mandarin phonetic pronunciation for Thank You was Sheh- Sheh, but anyway, Thank You Michelle for another informative article.

  43. #43
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:27 am, Southpaw said:

    “What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”
    Abraham Lincoln

    “A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
    Benjamin Franklin

    “In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.”
    J. Petit-Senn

    “Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”
    Frank Leahy, Look, 10 January 1955

  44. #44
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:34 am, katablog said:

    kowtower-in-chief’s

    Shouldn’t that be Bowtower-in-chief?

  45. #45
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:42 am, katablog said:

    #843919
    On November 18th, 2009 at 10:56 am, ITookTheRedPill:

    Why aren’t you posting all this stuff on your blog rather than hijacking this thread?

  46. #46
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:49 am, Dexter Alarius said:

    We are the mightiest economic and military power the planet has ever seen. And our feckless leader engages in the ‘Diplomacy of Deference’.

    Disrespect our friends,
    Encourage our enemies,
    Demean our nation.

    Is it 2012 yet?!

  47. #47
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:50 am, tre said:

    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:21 am, happy2behere said:
    I thought the Mandarin phonetic pronunciation for Thank You was Sheh- Sheh, but anyway, Thank You Michelle for another informative article.

    Could be. Sometimes, I have trouble hearing the individual sounds Mrs. Tre says when she’s talking.
    I told her, once, that when Americans hear Chinese talking, what we hear is something like, “ching jong foo gong blahblahblah.”

    She though that was one of the funniest things she ever heard.

  48. #48
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:54 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Obama is a lying POS, a Marxist thug, who hates America, and has ties to agents of the old USSR.

    But President Blue Lips w/Ears comes perilously close to racial stereotype, and can be used by pro-Obama, ie, anti-American people, as “proof” that we are all knuckledragging racists over here.

  49. #49
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:56 am, JohnnyD said:

    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:09 am, KVal57 said:

    KVal, you too funny!!!

  50. #50
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:58 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    After Obamas visit to Hawai’i just befor ethe election as his communist grandmother lay dying, and Rahm Emmanuel’s interesting “Kenya safari” vacation in December 2008, it is a safe bet that any evidence that indicates Obama was not born on US soil has been disappeared forever.

    Questions about his constitutional eligibility, while likely based on fact, will never lead to his removal from office.

    Pointless.

  51. #51
    On November 18th, 2009 at 12:23 pm, cicerokid said:

    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:42 am, katablog said:

    “If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say nuthin’ at all”.

    Thumper

  52. #52
    On November 18th, 2009 at 12:29 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    darn the Chinese didn’t keep him…you know they do sell stuff touting him as Maobama..lol

  53. #53
    On November 18th, 2009 at 12:36 pm, Misscheryl said:

    “If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say nuthin’ at all”.

    Or my personal favorite, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit next to me.”

  54. #54
    On November 18th, 2009 at 12:37 pm, yohannbiimu said:

    I NEVER thought that we’d be at a point where the Red Chinese would be lecturing us (Obowma, actually) about proper economics, so I’d think that the media spin over there is that his piddle about “unfettered criticism” and freedom of speech is as serious as his kindergartner’s grasp of how to run an economy.

    I’d LOVE to know what other countries are saying about this moron.

  55. #55
    On November 18th, 2009 at 12:40 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    OK with the fun so far but please-nobody say

    me love you too much GI

    as that would be wrong.

    Is there a site we can buy ObaMao shirts and caps?

  56. #56
    On November 18th, 2009 at 12:42 pm, yohannbiimu said:

    Is there a site we can buy ObaMao shirts and caps?

    I think MaObama sounds better…

  57. #57
    On November 18th, 2009 at 12:46 pm, vinny said:

    Obama=Liar
    That is in any language: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, “Austrian”,….

  58. #58
    On November 18th, 2009 at 12:48 pm, RTater said:
  59. #59
    On November 18th, 2009 at 1:08 pm, William said:

    Michelle,

    Ni Hau Ma? (Mandarin)

    Nay Ho Ma? (Cantonese)

    “Greetings?” or “Hello,” or “How are you?”

    (Literally, “You good, Question?” (Hau (Mandarin) and Ho (Cantonese) means “good,” while Ni or Nee (Mandarin) or Nay (Cantonese) means “you.”

    In Chinese, the Character for the word “good” commonly used is the combination of the single character for girl and boy combined, which then means “good.”

    “Ma” in both Mandarin and Cantonese, in this context, as it is used in this sentence, a common form of greeting in both languages, is the verbal form of a question mark.

    So, Hello, Michelle!” or “Nee (Ni) Hau Ma?!” (Mandarin) or “Nay ho mah?!” (Cantonese).

    You asked, how to you say “You Lie?” in Mandarin.

    Here is “tell a lie” in Mandarin, followed by Cantonese.

    Jiang da hua (Mandarin – to tell a lie).

    Gong daaih wah (Cantonese – to tell a lie).

    Mandarin and Cantonese are both “singing” languages which include vocal tones and pitch changes which change the meaning of a phonetically pronounced word. A word which is phonetically spelled and pronounced “Ma” could have several meanings depending on its context and its tone with which it is spoken.

    “Ma” could mean “horse,” or it could mean “mother,” or it could at the end of a sentence in which someone is asking a question, as in the example above “Nee hau ma?” or “Nay ho ma?”

    Mandarin, the state language of China, employs four tones and a neutral tone.

    Cantonese employs SEVEN (7) tones, some rising, some falling, some level, some starting low and rising, some starting high and falling, etc.

    In writing Chinese similar phonetic sounds often have different characters which give their precise meaning.

    In Chinese language there are Traditional Chinese Characters, which tend to have more strokes, and Simplified Chinese Characters, which is a fairly recent phenomenon in which China simplified the characters, hence they would tend to have less strokes per character.

    So, Obama hai fai dee gong daaih wah,” (Cantonese – Obama is quick (or fast) to tell a lie” or “Obama se jiang da hua” (Mandarin)

    The word for word translation in Mandarin would be something like “tell big word” as “Jiang (speak, tell, talk), da ((big), and hua (to say: language, conversation, words)

    In Cantonese it would be “Gong” (speak, tell, say), daaih (big, large), wah (to say: language, conversation, words).

    To speak these in the proper tone:

    Mandarin: “Jiang” gets a low-rising tone, “da” gets an upper falling tone, and “hua” gets an upper falling tone.

    Cantonese: “gong” gets a high rising tone, “daaih” gets a low level tone, and “wah” gets a low level tone.

    It is sufficient to just say “Jiang da hua” and in Cantonese “Gong daaih wah.”

    “Zai jain!” (Mandarin)

    “Joi gin!” (Cantonese)

    “See you later!,” “Good-bye!” (Again meet).

    Wai Lim (William)

  60. #60
    On November 18th, 2009 at 1:08 pm, beachmom said:

    “V”

  61. #61
    On November 18th, 2009 at 1:11 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Fie dolla…fie dolla…

    From what famous movie were these words spoken and why?

  62. #62
    On November 18th, 2009 at 1:18 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Thanks RTater – My neighbor still has his BlueLips/Biden sticker on his car and wears his w/ears button. Of course I shall wear my Obama + Mao = Obamao shirt in mere self defense and in no way being disrespectful of President BlueLips w/ears; absolutely not.

    Thanks again.

  63. #63
    On November 18th, 2009 at 1:23 pm, William said:

    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:21 am, happy2behere said:

    I thought the Mandarin phonetic pronunciation for Thank You was Sheh- Sheh, but anyway, Thank You Michelle for another informative article.

    You are correct, “happy2behere”.

    Phonetically, “Xie, xie,” or “shye shye” (“e” as in “eh”) is the common Mandarin form of “thank you.”

    The Cantonese form is “daw che” and “mh goy.”

    “daw che” or “daw jeh” is used when someone gives you something, such as a gift.

    “mh goy” or “mh goi” is used when someone does a service, or does something for you, such as brings you a plate of food, or helps you with something.

    Cantonese, along with Mandarin, is the most spoken Chinese language, and has been the most spoken Chinese dialect outside of China for a very long time.

    Today Mandarin, the State Language of China, is spoken more often outside of China than it was in the past.

  64. #64
    On November 18th, 2009 at 1:35 pm, Flyoverman said:

    When you are Obama and no one checks the facts in the MSM, why shouldn’t he lie. He can do so with total impunity.

    E.g. no one fact checked Obama’s books. AP has 11 people fact checking Palin’s book. No bias there. /sarc

  65. #65
    On November 18th, 2009 at 1:36 pm, rambler said:

    He thinks that we are all so mesmerized by the sound of his voice that he can forget that all these contradictions are on tape. He said on CSPAN that KSM would have a tribunal and now he says the opposite. (Notice that he didn’t opt for the trial to be in DC.)Is it any surprise that the man who voted “present” can’t stick with a single opinion. The first 5 people listed in the phone book would make better presidents than BHO.

  66. #66
    On November 18th, 2009 at 1:36 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    The Chinese will get screwed by Obama as well, and they should know it by now.

  67. #67
    On November 18th, 2009 at 1:39 pm, William said:

    For clarification, Cantonese is the language which was spoken most often outside of China, spoken by more than 500,000,000. A dialect similar to Cantonese, which, as is Cantonese, is also from the Guang Dong Province, or Canton area, is Toi san va.

    Toi san has been spoken by many immigrants from China, and many who speak it just call it “Cantonese.”

    There are many similarities between Toi san va and Cantonese (Gong dong wah).

    Cantonese is spoken in Hong Gong (or Heong Gong – “Fragrant Harbor”).

    Mandarin (guo yu), the state language of Chinese, is the most spoken Chinese language, while Cantonese and Toi San were spoken by more immigrants in the past.

    Again, more people outside of China are speaking Mandarin these days, and many areas throughout the country now offer Mandarin language classes.

    On Chinese television broadcasts which can be viewed here in the USA, 24 hour Chinese stations which feature news, soap operas, game shows, talk shows, variety shows, and movies, etc., throughout the day, the languages can often be mixed, featuring Cantonese for some, and Mandarin for others.

    Often, during such entertainment as movies and soap operas, there are Chinese characters on a ticker moving left to right across the bottom of the screen, as a form of captions, which enables viewers to understand the dialog in cases in which they might not speak Mandarin, or might not understand Cantonese, Toi san, etc.

  68. #68
    On November 18th, 2009 at 1:52 pm, William said:

    Barrak Hussein Obama (Peace be unto Him. Praise His Holy Name. All Praise, Glory, Honor, Worship, and Adoration be heaped upon Him. Prostrate yourself before Him. Kiss His feet in humble submission and adoration. Serve Him, dedicate yourself to Him with every thought, word, and deed, and with all your resources. Give thanks to Him at all times. Remember Him at each and every moment of the day – both waking and sleeping. Take shelter in Him. Accept Him as your Lord and Savior, and He will save you. Surrender to Him, give Him your worries, your burdens, your cares, and He will give you Peace.

    Give Him your worries, and He will comfort you.

    Look to Him, and He will give you your car, your money, your home, your food, your medicine, your doctor, everything.

    Love Him, the Messiah most worthy of Love and Adoration, the Ocean of Mercy, Compassion, Grace, and Joy! /sarcasm off) is a rank amateur!

    During the election campaign Sarah Palin was attacked as being inexperienced, while she had more experience than Obama.

    Obama’s lack of experience was ignored, as was his leftist, radical influences, his history, his words, and his contradictions, his omissions, and more.

    Now we have a rank amateur pretending to be the President of the United States of America.

    Actually, he was elected, so he IS the president, but he pretends to know what he is doing.

    He and his wife think the USA is a mean, evil nation, and he has spent hours, thousands of miles of travel, and millions in taxpayer funds to perpetuate the image of the USA as a mean, racist, vile nation.

    He claims that the USA is not a Christian nation, but that it is one of the largest Muslim nations, with among the largest Muslim populations in the world.

    He clearly shows his “colors” or his influences and priorities and values, and they are not “American” (United States traditional values.)

    We are stuck wish him now.

    Who can fathom the amount of damage that he is doing to our nation, how it will affect the future, and if it is irreparable or not?

    Thank a nation of sheeple who had a choice between to terrible candidates endorse and coronated by the press. Sheeple, many of whom have been brought up in day care, pre school, kindergarten, and public school, where leftist agenda is perpetrated since childhood, giving us a large portion of the populace with misplaced values who now support the likes of Obama, Pelosi, et al.

  69. #69
    On November 18th, 2009 at 2:12 pm, cheapseat said:

    in chinese it’s BU SHEE! THEY HAVE SHORTENED IT TO BS. AFTER ALL THE CHINESE INVENTED BU SHEE, AS IN I WON’T PUT WEAPONS IN SPACE, I WON’T USE ELECTRONIC TERRORISM, AND I WON’T STEAL YOUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.

  70. #70
    On November 18th, 2009 at 2:16 pm, purplepeep said:

    tre said:

    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:21 am, happy2behere said:
    I thought the Mandarin phonetic pronunciation for Thank You was Sheh- Sheh, but anyway, Thank You Michelle for another informative article.

    Could be. Sometimes, I have trouble hearing the individual sounds Mrs. Tre says when she’s talking.

    Eh. As with any language you find that different folks will say the same thing in different ways. Some folks say “you all”, others “y’all”.

    You’ll hear one Cantonese speaker say “Nei hou maa?” and another “Lei huo maa?” – the same term pronounced differently (meaning basically: “Hi, how are you?”).

    Only on MM will you find Michelle’s writing about Obama’s falsehoods evolve into a deep chat on linguistics. We got too many bright folks hereabouts.

    It’s kinda funny, too. :)

  71. #71
    On November 18th, 2009 at 2:20 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Rassmussen has Obama’s approval rating lower than it’s ever been:

    here

  72. #72
    On November 18th, 2009 at 2:21 pm, Truesoldier said:

    I saw this today and thought you would all get a kick out of it:

    In an interview with CBS News, Obama said deliberations over the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan are “life and death decisions” and that he would “absolutely” fire anyone found to be leaking confidential information on the matter.

    So where was he calling for investigations and firing of personnel when you had everyone and their brother in government leaking information to the NYT? Oh that’s right, it didn’t count cause Bush was in charge.

  73. #73
    On November 18th, 2009 at 2:44 pm, oldsoldier said:

    ArizonaNeanderthal, just reading the posts while having coffee and your “Shee_Ka_Gho” cost me a new keyboard. My desk may recover after several moppings. Hilarious. Thanks.

  74. #74
    On November 18th, 2009 at 3:10 pm, Dan Lee said:

    您說謊!

    Yes we can!

  75. #75
    On November 18th, 2009 at 3:19 pm, wckelly60 said:

    You lie in Mandarin? “Ba lak o ba ma”

    In Nihongo? “Shacho Barrrrrack Ohhbama” but in slang it would be “Yuuu rrrrie!”

  76. #76
    On November 18th, 2009 at 3:25 pm, Misscheryl said:

    3:10 pm, Dan Lee said:

    Heh

  77. #77
    On November 18th, 2009 at 3:38 pm, Dan Lee said:

    You know, you people are just indignant & mean to Obama, when you should be praying for him.. The Bible even says so..

    Psalm 109:8 “Let his days be few; and let another take office.”

    Triple snark..

  78. #78
    On November 18th, 2009 at 4:07 pm, William said:

    On November 18th, 2009 at 3:38 pm, Dan Lee said:

    You know, you people are just indignant & mean to Obama, when you should be praying for him.. The Bible even says so..

    Psalm 109:8 “Let his days be few; and let another take office.”

    Triple snark..

    Dan Lee,

    Aren’t we supposed to be praying to our Lord, our Savior, our Messiah, Barrack Hussein Obama (Peace be unto Him. Praise His Holy Name. All Praise, Glory, Honor, Worship, and Adoration be heaped upon Him. Prostrate yourself before Him. Kiss His feet in humble submission and adoration. Serve Him, dedicate yourself to Him with every thought, word, and deed, and with all your resources. Give thanks to Him at all times. Remember Him at each and every moment of the day – both waking and sleeping. Take shelter in Him. Accept Him as your Lord and Savior, and He will save you. Surrender to Him, give Him your worries, your burdens, your cares, and He will give you Peace.

    Give Him your worries, and He will comfort you.

    Look to Him, and He will give you your car, your money, your home, your food, your medicine, your doctor, everything.

    Love Him, the Messiah most worthy of Love and Adoration, the Ocean of Mercy, Compassion, Grace, and Joy!

    Prayer to our Savior, Barrack Hussein Obama:

    Oh dear Lord, Barrack Hussein Obama,

    Let us praise Your Holy Name.

    Give of Love, Joy, Money, Medical and Health Care, Hate of the USA, love of Marxism and Marxists, Communists, and Islamofascist terrorist Jihadis, for we do not wish to be evil Conservatives embracing traditional values.

    Please hear our prayer.

    Let us worship You, purely, without reservation, without interruption

    Let us serve You with every thought, word, and deed.

    Let us spread Your word througout the earth and beyond, so that all the people may know that You are The One, that You are Hope, that You are Change, that You are Love, and that You are Wisdom, Mercy, and Prosperity incarnate.

    Let us not work for ourselves, but for You and Your glorious mission.

    Let us take Your words to other lands and let us help You be the ruler of earth, for truly ohly You, Your Love, Your Mercy can Save us.

    Thank You Lord, Barrack Hussein Obama, for vanquishing our evil enemies, the Demonic Dick Cheney, the Devlish George W. Bush, the mean, nasty, vile babies inside the womb whose elimination via abortion that you support with great ferver. Thank you for working to free the downtrodden Jihadis, and for silencing the malevolent Conservatives and their evil talk radio hosts and that evil she devil, Sarah Palin, and that equally vile woman, Michelle Bachman, and those nasty conservative women, such as Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, and other she devils.

    Thank You, dear Master, for opening our eyes to these evil soldiers of Satan.

    Thank You for purifying our nation.

    Thank You for joining with the angelic, pure of heart, loving leaders of the world, like Hugo Chavez, Ahmedinejad, and others, for Truly you have come to establish peace and crush the evil Conservatives of the United States of America, and dash them to the pits of hell.

    Thank You, dear Lord, our Messiah, our Savior.

    Amen!

  79. #79
    On November 18th, 2009 at 4:09 pm, Ditkaca said:

    With a straight face, Obama lauded political dissent and told Chinese students that he welcomed unfettered criticism in OF America.

    FIFY

  80. #80
    On November 18th, 2009 at 4:50 pm, emjem24 said:

    Obummer doesn’t want to make waves because the Chinese have got us over a barrel with our debt (which they own). Obummer is a double-talking schmoozer trying to convince the Chinese that he’ll get smart on the economy as soon as he stops making up numbers for his bogus stimulapalooza job bonanza and how socialized medicine will benefit our economy.

    Too bad the Chinese aren’t buying it. However, the Chinese like how he stifles dissent since both parties practice it without much fanfare by their media lapdogs.

    I never thought I’d see the day when our government would get so cozy with the Chinese. It really makes me sick. These people have power over us and if we make one wrong move (like tariffs) then they’ll pull the plug on our economy.

    I wish Americans would wake the hell up that they do not control their own destiny anymore. The Chinese do.

  81. #81
    On November 18th, 2009 at 6:02 pm, Southpaw said:

    Has anyone else noticed:
    All anyone is talking about today is Sarah Palin.

    On the other hand:
    “Where’s Barack?”
    “I don’t know, last I heard he was off in Asia somewhere.”
    “Whatever.”

    What a difference a year makes.

  82. #82
    On November 18th, 2009 at 8:01 pm, p40tiger said:

    你撒谎!ni sa huang!

  83. #83
    On November 18th, 2009 at 8:16 pm, Tuesday said:

    Liar is 說謊者

    And we can repeat this over and over again, as Pinocchio has not stopped lying, nor has any intention of stopping!

  84. #84
    On November 18th, 2009 at 11:14 pm, purealchemy said:

    #844205On November 18th, 2009 at 6:02 pm, Southpaw said:
    Has anyone else noticed:
    All anyone is talking about today is Sarah Palin.

    YES! I noticed!
    Why hasn’t Michelle noticed?

  85. #85
    On November 19th, 2009 at 6:24 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On the other hand:
    Where’s Barack?”
    “I don’t know, last I heard he was off in Asia somewhere.”

    “Whatever.”

    If only he would stay in Asia-if only.

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