ELI5: Why do we change the name of countries in the English language? ie: Deustchland - Germany; Nihon/Nippon - Japan; Espana - Spain

bfelix · 5 days

Also, "Mei guo" is just a shortened form of the name. The official name in Chinese for the United States of America is 美利坚合众国, with the first three characters pronounced "Mei Li Jian" in Mandarin or "Mei Lei Keen" in Cantonese, an approximation of "American" (or really 'Merican).

Skr1llex · 9 days

17 here, drinking age is 18 in Hong Kong :(
Even worse, I'll be in the States for college this fall... Hello not legally getting drunk until I'm a senior in college!

MasterHiku · 23 days

A black Timex Weekender and rainbow bracelet that I bought in a Cambodian street market. Also sometimes an HRC bracelet.

btweet · 23 days

Volleyball all through middle school and high school, but I was never very good at it. Looking to try crew, rugby or (lol) ultimate frisbee in college. Any suggestions/recommendations, bromos?

BreakBloodBros · 25 days

My new favorite movie :)

Um_I_have_a_question · 1 month

MI is myocardial infarction, I think (aka a "heart attack")

mod83 · 1 month

I tend to use my phone as motivation to avoid eye contact with other people on the MTR...

katffro · 1 month

drop English Language if you can; I feel like AP Lit is more intense, and most colleges accept either one for advanced credit (but usually not both). You're going to want a free period for senior year!

PaulGiamatti · 1 month

I was about to point that out. Have an upvote.

btweet · 1 month

Took me about two hours, but this is up and running!

I used Amazon's EC2 to set up an instance of Ubuntu and then used OpenVPN. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube -- everything's working!

Thanks for the suggestion :)

trivisty · 1 month

you HAVE to watch Mean Girls. It is a classic!

carz005 · 2 months

I've flown with them before. Great, fun airline. I think in the safety card they refer to the life jacket as a "fashionable retro inflatable jacket" or something.

wfriction · 2 months

I took the PSAT as a Junior and got a 203-ish... When I took the actual SAT I ended up with a 2340. I would say the PSAT is a very rough estimate of how you'll do on the SAT. It's more useful for seeing your weaknesses than for predicting your actual score.

ur2fat4u · 3 months

We have "random" drug testing at my school in Hong Kong. The belief among most students seems to be that it's not entirely random. I'm a senior, and we've had random testing since middle school but I've still never been tested. I feel like I'm missing out on something, lol

mfp96 · 3 months

I was on special regional - NATO (1985) :)

mfp96 · 3 months

Cool, two guys from my school were in SOCHUM I think. They pretty much sat in the first row if I recall correctly

mfp96 · 3 months

Which committee were you on?

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