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
> T
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Unless it was "phat" with a PH!
Which would actually fit _Pat_ better, i'd think.
She could write it Phat with the H being superscript or something...
-Stephen (Steg)
"Word making is world making."
~ _The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis_
by Avivah Zornberg