Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/11/10

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Subject: [Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 49, Issue 56
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:48:14 -0800
References: <mailman.292.1320966672.1104.lug@leica-users.org> <4EBC8BD2.2010704@halcyon.com>

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>


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