So, in celebration of the first draft of Lex Talionis being sent off to be whipped into shape by betas, I have updated my glossary of "Useful Mandarin for Firefly authors" and if anybody out there actually, you know, speaks Mandarin, and can point out all of the lovely fuck-ups, I would greatly appreciate it, as much of this was culled from the web, as well as from Insight Pocket Travel Dictionary: Chinese (ISBN 1-58573-200-1)

( glossary )

needless to say, I am still tracking down the hanyu pinyin for a lot of the Mandarin used on the show, and still annoyed at the fact that half the diacritical marks I need aren't supported in HTML *sigh*

So, I'm trying to figure out how to phrase the content warning on Lex Talionis and I'm kinda at an empasse.

( spoiler for plot, in case anyone on the planet is still unspoiled since I've done all my brainstorming, you know, HERE )

Okay, so--got a new Firefly cast shot in the post this week, and prior to adventures in data recovery (which still, by the by, seems not to have happened--tho I did get an email telling me the matter had been 'escalated') had meant to post so y'all could gawk at the pretty space cowboys and girls. But got distracted by The Amazing Vanishing Directory.

So, here's the scan and here's the colourised version (long story as to how I did it, but I think it came out okay, don't you?)