Re: semiOT: intriguing Chinese "Jews"

In a message dated 2004:02:23 03:05:25 PM, Kou (latinfrench@SAGESCHOOL.ORG)
quotes me quotin' me Mumzie & writes:

>Monkey King contributes:
>
>>In a message dated 2004:02:19 01:35:03 AM, my mom writes:
>>
>>>Your article about the Jews in China is very interesting.  I also know
>>>of another group of Jews in the city of KaiFeng (Open Wind) in Northern
China.  There are also many evidences such as clothing, worship, features to set
them apart as Jewish even though they have blended with the >Chinese down the
years
>
>I'm being petty here, but "Kaifeng" de "feng" is not "wind" but
>"seal" (as in "hermetic seal", not the animal).

    Thanx for mentionin' that. My Shao Long Tong friends online also
corrected this... or rather flooded me...and Mother. ::waves to SLT conlang list
lurker(s)::


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