Why would a Chinese student repeatedly refer to a table in his assignment (i.e. a chart with rows and columns) as "the blanket"?
Monday, April 21, 2008
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3 Comments:
Something to do with spreadsheets??
I asked a Chinese friend of mine and she had no idea :)
Because (s)he thought it looked like a quilt?
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