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Re: CHAT: new names (was: Re: Bopomofo and pinyin)

From:Aidan Grey <arachnis@...>
Date:Monday, January 24, 2000, 5:01
Matt Pearson echreve:

> > > Donald > dan ou > Bomb Australia! > > Sarah > si re> 4 crazy nuns > > Now hold on! I know that "si" means "four" in Mandarin, but I refuse to > believe > that there's a word "re" meaning "crazy nun"! :-) >
Maybe it was her patronymic that meant 'crazy'/ All I really remember is teasing her about being a crazy nun forever.
> I once invented a race of aliens (inhabitants of the third planet of the star > Enif) whose name for their culture translated as "We Several Who Are Both > Embarrassed and Relieved By The Ascent of Pakapa From The Transluscent > Liver-Green Mindbox". Needless to say, it was a rather esoteric culture... > > Matt.
Noe that's a culture I could get into! They didn't have a drink that felt like being bludgeoned to death with a gold bar wrapped in a slice of lemon, did they? :> Aidan