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