My right ring finger, that is. Why? From typing on 6524 definitions in the past two weeks. Excluding the 3544 entries in HSK4, which I’ll correct later, that means I’m 86% done fixing up all the words in all our lists. My three week estimate from a week ago thus happily becomes a two week estimate.
Some of these definitions we have from other lists are really bad, and others are unceasingly hilarious. Like this one:
滔滔不绝 – tāotāobùjué:
dash along; give it mouth
(saying) gushing; torrential; non-stopping
pouring out words in a steady flow
unceasing torrent (成语 saw); talking non-stop/gabbling forty to the dozen
Hehehe, gabbling forty to the dozen!
能歌善舞 – néng gē shàn wǔ: good at signing and dancing
I read this and immediately imagined a large, Eastern European diplomat doing Riverdance-style jigs all day long while signing treaties, contracts, and other important documents, with throngs of fly honeys ooh’ing and aah’ing around him.
游击 – yóujī:
guerrilla warfare
guerrilla
shortstop
(n) guerrilla warfare
Turns out 游击手 (yóujīshǒu) means shortstop. I don’t think 游击 does, though.
Meanwhile, George has added the extra couple hundred characters with the Chef, and he and Scott have designed and built anew even more parts of our interface. The drool flows…
In other news, “review only” mode seems to be causing a lot of problems of late. It’ll be a lot different in the new system, so for now, don’t try going review-only–always have one list on “adding and review.”