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CHAT: R: Re: CHAT: silly names

From:Mangiat <mangiat@...>
Date:Sunday, March 18, 2001, 12:14
D Tse wrote:

> > > > > > > > To use the one word I know in Cantonese: /tSi:sing/ > > > > > > > > > > Does that mean "crazy" or suchlike? In which case it would be
pronounced
> > > more /tsi:si:n/. I'm not good at transcribing tones. > > > > > > > yes, crazy...like /baqi/ (or whatever!) in mandarin... > > > > /baqi/ (note! its in pinyin!) is funny, because [ba:tSi] is the word
that
> > a child will use to adress a man when speaking hungarian =) > > > > ie, man is crazy ;) > > > > It's also Italian for kisses _baci_ isn't it?
Indeed it is. It's the plural of 'bacio' /batSo/. Luca