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Re: English is a crazy language

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 11:45
From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>

> Have you ever heard of the (in)famous Chinese poems that go "Ma, ma, ma, > ma, ma" all with different tones, so that it actually means something? > There are several of these around, unfortunately I'm not familiar enough > with them to give you concrete examples.
Yeah, the "ma" poem means something like "Did mother scold the horse?", right? ~Danny~

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