Type four words that you use in a way that is different from their "proper" or standard meaning. these are probably words that you use in talking to your peers (like "cool"). do not include words which are generally considered inappropriate for public use. type the meaning of each word as you use it, then type the standard meaning of the word, such as you might find in a dictionary.

Sweet:

How people use it - Nice or kind

Standard meaning - Characteristics of sugar or honey; not salty, sour, or bitter.

Dude:

How people may use it - Friend

Standard meaning - A man; a guy

Blonde:

How people may use it - slow; unintelligent

Standard meaning - fair or pale yellow (hair)

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.