Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mandarin would be like "Li Bai" Like the character in Kill Bill, Bai Mei? Same word, it means "white." On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Larry Bullis <kingfisher at halcyon.com>wrote: > Agreed. > > I discussed this with some Chinese colleagues from Beijing a few years > back. Sounded to me like "Lee Buy" but really, sounds aren't transportable > from one language to another. Mandarin is so far out of our world that I'm > not sure what I'm hearing. And I'm sure I don't know what I'm saying! > > My English teacher in eleventh grade (that would have been in 1959 - 60!) > turned me on to him. At the time, I wanted to be a poet. That didn't happen > for me, so I had to marry one. > > L > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>