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Rpsh Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Make for long life

“Perry Link, a China expert and professor at Princeton (and a man whose name was made for long life in the blogs) explained in an excellent recent essay in the New York Review of Books the path that Mo Yan chose after the events of 1989. It is worth reading in full, but here is the crux of it.

What does it mean in the parentheses?
  

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rpsh What does it mean in the parentheses? " It is good for a blogger, perhaps because it is short and easy to remember.

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  • rpsh What does it mean in the parentheses?
  • " It is good for a blogger, perhaps because it is short and easy to remember.
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rpshWhat does it mean in the parentheses?
I think the writer is commenting on the name "Perry Link." It is good for a blogger, perhaps because it is short and easy to remember.
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Maybe it's a little joke, because the man's name is Link and blogs often include links.Emotion: smile
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I still can't understand the meaning of the sentence. Is there any connections between contexts?
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Your answer reminds me a interesting term in Chinese which named 'laughing point' though I still feel confused about this sentence. You said that it's a little joke, but how does it make you laugh? Or the reason why you laugh is what I have said—'laughing point'. And could you use another word to substitue the 'laughing point'?
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Look up the word 'pun'. Emotion: big smile

Clive
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CliveLook up the word 'pun'. Clive
And while you're at it, look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entendre.
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I have to say we have the different "laughing point"...Haha, thank you!
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I know these two words. I'm just confused about the ‘long life’. Now, I consider it as a adjective phrase to describe the man's catchy name .
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How many times do you see the word "link" in someone's blog?
Do you think that people will stop using "link" in blogs?
The word "link" will have a very long life...
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Got it... but it's so weird...Thank you!
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