More like, "You like European food", i.e. it's far too broad for one to have a simple attitude to it. However, the Chinese themselves often ask the question. O.K. ________________________________ From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:18 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Not very neighbourly "You like Chinese food" is like "You like French food." Some is mediocre. Some is divine. John On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> So Obama has been reading my e-mail and listening to my telephone >calls all these years > >Not to mention the massive privacy-violating armies of cybernaut Chinese >data gatherers, who though partial to governmental and corporate >espionage, check in with all of us occasionally. > >My fortune cookie read, "You like Chinese food." It was wrong. "Like" is >a strong word; it is only OK. > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, >digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > -- John McCreery The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN Tel. +81-45-314-9324 jlm@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.wordworks.jp/