Re: CHAT: silly names
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 16, 2001, 22:36 |
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> >
> > To use the one word I know in Cantonese: /tSi:sing/
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> Does that mean "crazy" or suchlike? In which case it would be pronounced
> more /tsi:si:n/. I'm not good at transcribing tones.
>
yes, crazy...like /baqi/ (or whatever!) in mandarin...
/baqi/ (note! its in pinyin!) is funny, because [ba:tSi] is the word that
a child will use to adress a man when speaking hungarian =)
ie, man is crazy ;)
-------ferko
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