| Author | Message | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 5294 Registered: 8-2001 |
Until last week, I had a passive scrund about China, i.e., something I took for granted without actually thinking about it. I bet many of you have this scrund, too. What is it? | ||
| Antesse (Antesse)
New member Username: Antesse Post Number: 69 Registered: 4-2008 |
Is it about Chinese... geography? language? culture? people? calendar? cuisine? imports/exports? politics? government? economy? finances? Did you correct your scrund through... television? conversation with person/people? internet? book? radio? printed media? broadcast media? personal interaction? Would most of us have this scrund? Average Americans? Educated Americans? Europeans? Asians? Africans? Australians? S. Americans? Chinese people? Is it a negative scrund or a positive scrund? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 5296 Registered: 8-2001 |
Antesse (Antesse) New member Username: Antesse Post Number: 69 Registered: 4-2008 Posted on Monday, April 26, 2010 - 10:23 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is it about Chinese... geography? language? culture? people? calendar? cuisine? imports/exports? politics? government? economy? finances? yesish to geography & no to all the others Did you correct your scrund through... television? yes, & no to all the others conversation with person/people? internet book? radio? printed media? broadcast media? personal interaction? Would most of us have this scrund? I bet many wouldAverage Americans? ditto Educated Americans? dittoEuropeans? dittoAsians? less likely Africans? I bet many would Australians? ditto S. Americans? ditto Chinese people? very unlikely Is it a negative scrund or a positive scrund? neither | ||
| Antesse (Antesse)
New member Username: Antesse Post Number: 70 Registered: 4-2008 |
Geography, eh? Relating to cities? Towns? Rural areas? Borders? Rivers? Lakes? Mountains? Plains? Oceans? Shorelines? Bodies of water? Land features? Topographical features? Biomes? Human features? Maps? Something else? | ||
| Mackadal (Mackadal)
New member Username: Mackadal Post Number: 40 Registered: 4-2010 |
Climate/weather? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 2571 Registered: 1-2007 |
Great Wall relevant? Paddy Fields? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2479 Registered: 5-2003 |
Is it about a particular place, person/people, or thing? Tibet, perhaps? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 5297 Registered: 8-2001 |
tesse (Antesse) New member Username: Antesse Post Number: 70 Registered: 4-2008 Posted on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 12:11 am: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Geography, eh? yes Relating to cities? not especially Towns? ditto Rural areas?ditto Borders? ditto Rivers ditto Lakes? ditto Mountains? ditto Plains? ditto Oceans? ditto Shorelines? ditto Bodies of water? ditto Land features? ditto Topographical features? ditto Biomes? huh? Human features?yope or noish Maps? noish Something else? yes Mackadal (Mackadal) New member Username: Mackadal Post Number: 40 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 3:03 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Climate/weather? no Peter365 (Peter365) New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 2571 Registered: 1-2007 Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 10:16 am: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Great Wall relevant? no Paddy Fields? no Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2479 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 2:07 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is it about a particular place, person/people, or thing? Just China in general Tibet, perhaps? no | ||
| Mackadal (Mackadal)
New member Username: Mackadal Post Number: 47 Registered: 4-2010 |
China`s size? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2492 Registered: 5-2003 |
Anything to do with race? Foot-binding? A Biome is a term for a general type of environment, like desert, jungle or forest. Nothing related to this? Other countries involved? History? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 5299 Registered: 8-2001 |
Mackadal (Mackadal) New member Username: Mackadal Post Number: 47 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 3:05 am: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) China`s size?It's not a scrund about how big China is, but China's size is relevant Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2492 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 12:18 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Anything to do with race? no Foot-binding? no A Biome is a term for a general type of environment, like desert, jungle or forest. Nothing related to this? no Other countries involved? no History? no | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2514 Registered: 5-2003 |
China's history relevant? Other countries? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 5302 Registered: 8-2001 |
Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2514 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Saturday, May 01, 2010 - 11:50 am: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) China's history relevant? no Other countries?no | ||
| Mackadal (Mackadal)
New member Username: Mackadal Post Number: 50 Registered: 4-2010 |
China having more land than Canada, but smaller if inland lakes count as landmass? | ||
| Mackadal (Mackadal)
New member Username: Mackadal Post Number: 51 Registered: 4-2010 |
China`s shape (border outlines)? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 5303 Registered: 8-2001 |
Mackadal (Mackadal) New member Username: Mackadal Post Number: 50 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Saturday, May 01, 2010 - 11:23 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) China having more land than Canada, but smaller if inland lakes count as landmass? no Mackadal (Mackadal) New member Username: Mackadal Post Number: 51 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Saturday, May 01, 2010 - 11:32 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) China`s shape (border outlines)? no | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2521 Registered: 5-2003 |
Did you correct your scrund through TV news? A documentary? A fictional show? Are disasters relevant? Natural features such as rivers or mountains? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 5304 Registered: 8-2001 |
Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2521 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2010 - 6:02 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Did you correct your scrund through TV news? no A documentary? no A fictional show? Are disasters relevant? no Natural features such as rivers or mountains? no | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 1752 Registered: 9-2009 |
Is the scrund about television: programs? Stations? Transmissions? Watching? Receiver ownership? Dubbing? Subtitling? Domestic programming? Foreign? Satellite relevant? Cable? Did you think some aspect of TV in China was like TV in the US, when it was not? Or that it was different, when it was in fact the same? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 5306 Registered: 8-2001 |
Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 1752 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2010 - 9:04 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is the scrund about television: programs? Stations? Transmissions? Watching? Receiver ownership? Dubbing? Subtitling? Domestic programming? Foreign? Satellite relevant? Cable? Did you think some aspect of TV in China was like TV in the US, when it was not? Or that it was different, when it was in fact the same? No to all. I learned from a TV program that I had this scrund, but the scrund is not about TV | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2527 Registered: 5-2003 |
Will it help us to find out how the scrund was corrected? Is the scrund about a person/people, place or thing/things? Is it about something intangible? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 5307 Registered: 8-2001 |
Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2527 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2010 - 10:14 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Will it help us to find out how the scrund was corrected? Not in the lateral puzzle way of figuring things out by reasoning. If you knew the show, you might find out what that show has said about China recently. But that wouldn't be in the true lateral spirit, would it? Is the scrund about a person/people no, place yes or thing/things yes? Is it about something intangible? noish | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2559 Registered: 5-2003 |
Will it help us to determine the place? Is the scrund about a particular region of China? A particular building or construction, such as the Hidden Palace? A movable object such as the terracotta soldiers? Just checking - are we talking about mainland (Communist) China here, or (Nationalist) Taiwan? | ||
| Hominid (Hominid)
New member Username: Hominid Post Number: 207 Registered: 1-2010 |
Is it about China's population? Density? Relative size? Did you think that since China is so big, x must be true? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 5309 Registered: 8-2001 |
Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2559 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2010 - 2:04 am: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Will it help us to determine the place? noish Is the scrund about a particular region of China? no A particular building or construction, such as the Hidden Palace? no A movable object such as the terracotta soldiers? no Just checking - are we talking about mainland (Communist) China here, or (Nationalist) Taiwan? the former Hominid (Hominid) New member Username: Hominid Post Number: 207 Registered: 1-2010 Posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2010 - 8:31 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is it about China's population? no Density? no Relative size? no Did you think that since China is so big, x must be true? YES. GOOOOOOOD QUESTION!! | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 5312 Registered: 8-2001 |
HINT: What is a way in which you would expect a big country NOT to be uniform? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2594 Registered: 5-2003 |
Its terrain? Politics? Racial makeup? Language? Religion? Internal layout (provincial borders etc)? Military? Pastimes? Wildlife? Weather? Countries on its borders? Laws? Businesses? Roads? Worries/fears? Time zones? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 5315 Registered: 8-2001 |
Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2594 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Saturday, May 08, 2010 - 6:50 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Its terrain? Politics? Racial makeup? Language? Religion? Internal layout (provincial borders etc)? Military? Pastimes? Wildlife? Weather? Countries on its borders? Laws? Businesses? Roads? Worries/fears? Time zones? yes to time zones & no to all the others. Now solving the puzzle will be a snap!! | ||
| Mackadal (Mackadal)
New member Username: Mackadal Post Number: 71 Registered: 4-2010 |
China only spans 1 time zone(insert question mark here) | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 5317 Registered: 8-2001 |
Mackadal (Mackadal) New member Username: Mackadal Post Number: 71 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Sunday, May 09, 2010 - 12:33 am: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) China only spans 1 time zone(insert question mark here)yes!! ****** SPOILER ************* I bet you have never thought about how many time zones China has? But aren't you surprised, as I was, to learn that it has only one? Please see my replacement puzzle. |
