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Re: USAGE: Yet another try at Pinyin-compatible tonal spelling for Mandarin

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Friday, September 21, 2001, 4:46
In a message dated 19.09.2001 04:10:24 AM, dreamertwo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

>>From: J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> >>Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 00:01:40 EDT >> czHANg >> >> p.s. - heard any good Romanizations of Cantonese? ::gales of mad >>laffter:: ack my ribs... > >Oh, yeah. Can any good thing come from Yale. *g* >
My Mum. She is a graduate from Yale's School of Nursing :) But my Dad, who has recently divorced her after nearly a decade of living apart, says she's from the _Wang [/wong/] side of the family_ (My Mum comes from a Right-wing, neo-Confucianist, upper-class Christianized family from Foochow. My Dad is a Sumatran-born Cantonese-Indonesian liberal Christian socialist with more of a Southern Chinese background of Buddhism and Taoism. They first met during the Japanese Occupation of British-held Malaysia on the island of Penang, "Pearl of the Orient.") czHANg, perversely proudly ramblin' again about his uniquely dysfunctional Asian family...