Re: OFF : updated tunu grammar
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 21:55 |
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"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
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> John Cowan wrote:
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> > Gack, and I thought Qi Huangdi (the First Chinese Emperor, who ordered a
> > general burning of books) was a dreadful tyrant! This is too much!
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> Don't you mean Hsi-Huand-ti (Wade-Giles transcription)? The Pinyin
> for the Dynasty name is _Qin_.
Yeah, I left the "n" off his family name. Qin Huangdi. I have seen
Qin Xi Huangdi too, I'm not sure what the implication of the different
form is.
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