Bet #6 - Don't speak

Hola!

It's exams period :( :( :(

So, coming up are a series of 'study bets' ie, bets we make to kill time between books or motivational/studying bets.

One of them is Shut up I bet i know what you're gonna say next!
(10 pts per bet)

This is a good study bet because it sure as hell prevents us from talking hahahaha

So what we did was write down 2 things that we think the other person's gonna say asap. We had to limit it to 'objects' and 'adjectives' otherwise there'd be words like 'you', 'the', 'a' which we say faaaarrr too frequently. G said he would have put 'babe' or 'baby' and that would have won him the points within 2 seconds of the game!

There are some things you can't stop yourself from saying even if you have 10 rags stuffed in your mouth bound with a leather strap.

So, for 'objects' :

G -
'window' + 'rice'
(he was seated next to the open window, and he knew eventually i would ask him to close it because it's colddd)

M -
'laptop' + 'essay'
(he was doing his coursework... i think im just uncreative -__-)

Note we do not know what the other person wrote, and we can't provoke the other to say it!

10 minutes later, G looked up and beckoned me over 'Hey can you help me read this... sentence?'

As i went over i was thinking 'What's wrong with you??? Any normal person would have said essay! T_T'

Throughout the next 1 minute he kept saying 'sentence, sentence, sentence' and to my sheer horror, he just went 'ok thanks bye' without saying 'essay'. Is this how you show your gratitude, G? *hiss*

Right...

20 minutes later... because i have a perpetual carnal craving for FOOD... i went, 'Shall we heat up the rice?'

Oh, man, i was greeted with the smirkiest smirk you can ever imagine.

UGHHH.

For 'adjectives' :

This is a controversial one.

I was chatting to my sisters while shoe-shopping online. And i said out loud, '这双鞋很美!'

G's eyes flickered and i instantly knew one of his words was 'nice' (girls are perceptive like that :p). But he didn't say anything because firstly, i said it in chinese. Secondly, he wasn't sure of what i said.

Later he walked past my laptop and he said 'Wow, your chat with yours sister is very long.'

Score!


He then accused me of saying 'nice' when i said the sentence in chinese above.

I replied that it meant my shoe was very pretty, not nice.

And he said "'美' is nice, not 'pretty'."
"Nooo! '美' is pretty!"
"Shoes are nice, not pretty!"
"My shoes are pretty!"

He gave me points for that bet, but challenged me to ask 5 people to translate '这双鞋很美!' to english. He was dead sure most people would say shoes are nice.

Yeah, well, i'm dead sure people would say 美 is pretty!

And we did.

Ask 5 people, i mean.

And 3 of them translated it to...

'the shoe is very nice'

*spits out indecipherable swear words

Ok i still think it's very wrong, and i originally thought it had a lot to do with whether a guy/girl said but some guys i asked said it's 'pretty' and some girls still called it 'nice'.

Thus i lose this bet with much grief.

美 is pretty damnit!


Score -

M - 45 points
G - 55 points