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:

  1. Something to do with spreadsheets??

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

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

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