Monday, April 21, 2008

Can any Chinese speaker explain this to me?

Why would a Chinese student repeatedly refer to a table in his assignment (i.e. a chart with rows and columns) as "the blanket"?

3 Comments:

Grace Dalley said...

Something to do with spreadsheets??

L said...

I asked a Chinese friend of mine and she had no idea :)

AS said...

Because (s)he thought it looked like a quilt?