Lmao, operation brown tide

Too late:

“Trump plans order to cut funding for NPR and PBS”

Luckily, they are publicly funded. I’m not sure if that will be enough to cover operating costs in the future, though. Who knows if this is 80’s style saber rattling. I have no idea in this current political/ economic environment.

It’s only 4 tones. If you think of it like music, it’s not too hard. The hardest part is converting characters into English into pinyin back into the characters.

At least we don’t have honorifics (too bad) or gender based grammar. TELL ME WHY MY DESK IS MALE IN GERMAN. I also like our prefix, root word, and suffix system. Also, wait until you hear about “ma” in Mandarin. I believe it’s “Mom, What”, and two other things (it has been a while since college). It’s all "ma,"and the definition changes based on tone.

Hit 0 and keep hitting it. It doesn’t work as often as it used to, but it works pretty often.