Snoop Dogg

Following up on the previous post, I found a free Chinese/English dictionary for MacOS called Dragon Dictionary.  I downloaded it and launched it and the first word I typed in was “dog.” This is what came up.

That’s right, folks, there’s an entry in there for doggy-style.  I asked my employees and they said that this was correct, too.  Now I just need to learn how to say “Mongolian hooker.”

See the number that follows each word?  That indicates which of the four tones it is to be spoken.  Note that two of the words are “gou” but have different tones, and thus are different words with distinct characters.  See what I mean? You can be saying the right word, but if you say it the wrong way it doesn’t make any sense to the person hearing it.