A polyglot riddle

[trochee]

Hint: Why does this describe my academic life:
１１０，中文说的。

Comments

[evan.livejournal.com]

I can read the Chinese but I still don't get it.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

pronounce the digits out loud.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Heh. It looks like 9 little squares on *my* screen. I know that's not what it's supposed to look like. I infer there are chinese characters involved.... Huh.

[congogirl.livejournal.com]

and if we don't speak chinese?

[trochee.livejournal.com]

well, there's google, which turns up this on the pronunciation of digits in Chinese.

(okay, a hint for the non-Sinophones: the digits 1, 1, 0 in Mandarin Chinese are pronounced /i:/, /i:/, /lɪŋ/. There's also lexical tone, but that is irrelevant to the riddle).