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I asked him about Chinese for "doorknob".
"Here's a one-word language test to measure whether someone really knows a foreign country and culture: What's the word for doorknob?
By Peter Hessler March 15, 2010 "Here's a one-word language test to measure whether someone really knows a foreign country and culture: What's the word for doorknob?
"No, I don't know," Jake said, and then he added, brightly: "But I know the word for 'door.' " "Here's a one-word language test to measure whether someone really knows a foreign country and culture: What's the word for doorknob?
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It's not the same process for a doorknob, for on a doorknob you're getting full palm action.
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I only stayed for a few minutes, watching them in awe before I felt for the doorknob and got up to leave.
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