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Old Dec 4, 2011 | 2:44 pm
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Originally Posted by mnredfox
3. In China, older folks can call younger folks by terms of endearment, ".
a big exception " little younger brother"
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Old Dec 18, 2011 | 2:00 pm
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Originally Posted by anacapamalibu
a big exception " little younger brother"
I don't understand... does "小弟" have some prurient connotation?

I'm really asking, not making a joke. This is the kind of stuff you don't learn in grad school 中文 classes.
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Old Dec 18, 2011 | 2:44 pm
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Saw a waiter attack a Chinese patron in a bar in the Yangtze Delta about a month ago. Obviously he felt to have been spoken to in a derogative way.

They got into a fistfight and knocked over a few tables, then calmed down and the gentleman and his guest actually stayed in the establishment for the evening...Probably helped by the manager offering them drinks and food for free.
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Old Dec 18, 2011 | 2:44 pm
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this is the term

小弟弟
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Old Dec 19, 2011 | 4:25 am
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Lot's of fun ways to put 小姐 and 小弟弟 into the same sentence, but I would not recommend trying to do so at a restaurant on the Mainland.
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Old Dec 21, 2011 | 2:28 am
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Originally Posted by anacapamalibu
this is the term

小弟弟
Originally Posted by travelinmanS
Lot's of fun ways to put 小姐 and 小弟弟 into the same sentence, but I would not recommend trying to do so at a restaurant on the Mainland.
Very true. In fact, don't use them in public....
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