Re: New Relay Announcement
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 23, 2003, 23:05 |
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:54:37PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> H. S. Teoh scripsit:
>
> > > "Let my friend be angered. About him. What was it? Is it that he read an
> > > old book?"
> >
> > Transliterated (and liberally mangled :-P) Hokkien:
> >
> > Make my friend raise hot air. Who cares about his maternal aunt. To the
> > bottom that one is what? He is or isn't read Japanese book?
>
> "Japanese book" for "old book", because of the Japanese occupation of Taiwan?
[snip]
No, because it's liberally mangled Hokkien: /tsit pun che/ (one volume of
book) sounds like /jit pun che/ (Japanese book). :-)
T
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