“Liong?”

When watching my parents absorb their daily dose of Chinese TV, we had an argument: Would you rather be correct, or understood?

It started when an interview came up on the director of Brokeback Mountain’s latest film. Of course, since it was a Chinese station, it was done entirely in gibberish to my ears. I recognized him as Brokeback’s director though, and pointed that out. I couldn’t for the life of me remember his name though.