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From :   Pooshybooshy

Date : 2008-02-12 / 10:40PM

Ni hao Benny,

I’m just posting to say that a family member of mine happens to know my password for my YouTube account. He sent you a message pretending to be me and I’m not sure what he said. Please ignore the message. ;)
Anyhow… I shouldn’t really waste space on the ScrapBook for that, so I’ll hit you with a question:
How does one say make, as in ‘can we make it there on time?’

Xia ci jian.

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managerbenny

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 benny bennysland.com 
2008-02-13 / 10:03AM

ni hao, Pooshybooshy. I will check my YouTube account, but please don’t worry about that, I’m sure that he or she wouldn’t say anything bad about you or us :)

As for your question, “make” in this sentence is translated as “to arrive”, that’s “dào”. Therefore the whole sentence is “wǒ men kě yi zhǔn shí dào ma?” “zhǔn shí” is “on time”

I wish you and your family all the best in the year of 2008!

Happy New Year!

Benny

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Pooshybooshy

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 Pooshybooshy hotmail.com 
2008-02-13 / 12:56PM

Ah, I see. I’ve learned two new things. :) Xie xie Benny.
I doubt he would of said anything offensive or the like, he just tends to get bored and jokes around. He did let me know, though.

Gong1 he4 xin1 xi3, Benny.

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