Make a Movie 件

KEYWORD:

An article (of something)

Pinyin:

jiàn

Actor:

ji-  Female

Set:

-an

Room within Set:

Bathroom or Backyard

Prop(s):

亻 Chuck Norris

牛  Cow

Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020

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Della Fuller

Jessica is in Sharon's backyard. The Rock is there as well, and a cow. The Rock is naked, because he has misplaced all of his ARTICLES OF clothing, and has placed the cow in front of him for modesty. His clothing is scattered across the yard. Jessica gathers each ARTICLE up one by one and hangs each ARTICLE on the cow's horns, so that the Rock can dress himself again.

MB Team

Here's the link to where Phil and Luke talked about this comment in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGOkHhpBYxQ&t=4021s

Georg Lohrer

Ah, again a typical "Della Fuller" story - I like your short and crispy scenes! Thank you. Especially for ARTICLE (or measure word) I was instantly questioning myself how I can handle it in a direct but also understandable way. Measure-Words are not common in my language (German), but we do have the 3 different articles for nouns, so I know that there are differences. In Chinese however, due to the vast amount of homonyms, without measure-words many sentences would be really ambigious.

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