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Re:The Eternal Sloptember by seanmcdirmid on Monday May 25, 2026 @01:18PM (#48269230)
You wouldn't be surprised how often chinese learners say 一双裤子 (one pair of pants) rather than 一条裤子 (one long slender flowing pants).
Re:The Eternal Sloptember by thaumasiotes on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @12:53AM (#48275153)
All learners of Chinese, or just the ones whose native language is English?

I figure the most natural mistake to make when counting pants is to use 件, since that's the measure word that applies to "clothes", but you'd have to already know at least some Chinese in order to make that mistake.

Re:The Eternal Sloptember by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:38PM (#48284910)
Ah, the ones coming from English of course. I don't have much experience in how Koreans or Russians learn Chinese (although I had plenty of non-English classmates when I took language lessons at PKU).

I'm thinking more Kouyu than writing. If I didn't think hard about it, I might say yi shuang kuzi or even, for some reason, yi jian kuzi.