Re: OT: Junk

In a message dated 2003:09:10 09:26:37 PM, Kuo (latinfrench@SAGESCHOOL.ORG)
writes:

>Now, "junk": the Mandarin word is "fan1chuan2" (Cantoversion as Sun
>Wukong's latest incarnation, Mr. Czhang, gives us: "fan1sün4" (okay,
>I acquiesce, "faan1suen4")).
    :)  Of course my limited Cantonese is thrice-removed from the "homeland"
- I learned what I know from my father and his pronunciation is a lil more the
South East Asian Cantonese that he learned growing up in Indonesia and
Malay(sia).

> Literally, it's "sail""boat" (fan = sail; chuan = boat), but obviously
doesn't first >conjure up to Chinese minds the notion of the Western recreational
vessel.

    *snarfle!* _bat siu wa_ (no joke).... Many of the more "tribal" Hakka
fishing people, who live in the Hong Kong Harbour, live on old-style wooden junks
converted into houseboats. Think of it as a floating shantytown or
water-based ghetto.

>One dictionary proffers that if you really want to get specific, you can
>stick "ping2di3" ("flat bottomed") in front, but that's probably a
>bit much.
    ROTFLMAO

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>Finally a religious statement I can agree with:
>
>the Zoroastrian teaching that it is a sin for a person to be boring.
Only boring people get bored.


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