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Re: Chinese insults (was Re: "...two Moscovites conversing in English" (was Re: Yet another introduction)

From:laokou <laokou@...>
Date:Thursday, September 27, 2001, 3:20
From: "J Y S Czhang"

> Hmmm, the uptight-puritan-neoConfucianistic Northerners call us > Southerners "monkeys," too!!!!
I don't know what Chinese consider their Mason-Dixon line, but this came from Nanchang in Jiangxi, south of the Yangtse. (Yes, by Canton standards, this is North). Kou PS And what, pray tell, do Northerners call Southerners?

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