Re: Written forms (was Re: Moi, le Kou)

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 08:13:49PM -0500, Steg Belsky wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 07:51:26 -0500 "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
> writes:
> > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:36:03AM -0500, Roger Mills wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > One student had served with the Peace Corps in Malaysia; her name
> > was Pat.
> > > One day she confessed that her Malaysian friends called her
> > "Fat"-- short
> > > for Fatima-- because they thought "Pat" was inelegant.
>
> > LOL!!! Now an English speaker could really take offense at that one
> > :-P
[snip]

> Unless it was "phat" with a PH!
> Which would actually fit _Pat_ better, i'd think.
[snip]

No, it's an F. As Roger said, it's an abbreviation of "Fatima" or
"Fatimah", a very common female name in Malaysia/Indonesia.


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