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Original story with background: http://www.cctv.com/english/special/news/20091026/103440.shtml http://www.cctv.com/english/special/news/20091026/103440.sht...

• gjm11 17y ago
  From the start of the second page: "Wu, who has a girlish hairstyle, ..." ... WTF?
  • madebylaw 17y ago
    Yeah the headline also calls her a 'girl' even though she's a University graduate. When does she become a 'woman', I wonder?
    • mrshoe 17y ago
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_birds_and_the_bees http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_birds_and_the_bees
    • neilk 17y ago
      I'm guessing, when she gets married? Until then it's all messing around with 21st-century algorithmically designed materials, you know, 'girl' stuff.
    • electromagnetic 17y ago
      Exactly what I was thinking. I don't believe many girls graduate university before entering the nomenclature of womanhood.
  • chaosmachine 17y ago
    That's what you call getting paid by the word.
    • Devilboy 17y ago
      I think it's probably the work of a translator.
  • RevRal 17y ago
    My first thought was that the writer's boss said "and I want you to mention her haircut somewhere in there." And the writer couldn't find a good place and just said: "screw it."