'Philately will get you nowhere.' Get it? Flattery will get you nowhere? The Chinese can't say 'r', they say 'l' instead?? Oh never mind!
My Chinese friend got really sick one day and had to go to a hospital. I went to see him the next day, but he just kept whispering “Chun Yu Yan” over and over – and then died. I was very sad and googled his last message after the burial. Apparently, it means “You’re standing on my oxygen tube.”