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Re: linguistic "flavours" (was Re: Missing Words)

From:Aidan Grey <grey@...>
Date:Saturday, March 23, 2002, 19:00
At 10:18 AM 3/23/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>Big noses....?  I don't know what that means.
>Clint

   Chinese for white man is "big nose". I remember when I was taking my
Chinese oral exam, one of the questions was to describe my brother. He
actually _does_ have a big nose, but they laughed their Chinese butts off
nonetheless.

   Aidan