Re: CHAT: silly names

The first syllable is bai not ba.  I hear it daily.  It seems to be the
nicest thing my little students can call each other.

Adam


>From: Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: CHAT: silly names
>Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:36:17 -0800
>
> > >
> > > To use the one word I know in Cantonese: /tSi:sing/
> > >
> >
> > 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
>Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
>
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