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To: Free ThinkerNY; martin_fierro; NormsRevenge; aculeus; Charles Henrickson; Constitution Day; ...
If he did stuff like that when alive, what will he do when dead?

With a name like Hung, generate gallows humor I suppose.

20 posted on 09/11/2006 10:05:20 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal (As it was in the days of NO...)
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To: Thinkin' Gal

This is interesting, because this is a Cantonese/Vietnamese translation of Chinese sound. I can say that this surname is "very" familiar to myself.

Now the game can also be played from the other direction. Many Chinese love wordplaying jokes on some translated Western names. For instance, the word orchestra is very similar to Cantonese phrase "Orr-Cut-Chuck" (meaning "Oh! Cockroach!"), and the Chinese name for Canada is a bit similar in sound to the crude term for armpits.


44 posted on 09/12/2006 3:31:44 AM PDT by NZerFromHK (The US Founding is what makes Britain and USA separated by much more than a common language.)
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To: Thinkin' Gal; NY Free Thinker; martin_fierro; NormsRevenge; Charles Henrickson; Constitution Day

At the funeral his favorite one-syllable mantra will chanted by a chorus of Buddist monks: Ohm ..... Ohm .... Ohm.


46 posted on 09/12/2006 6:42:54 AM PDT by aculeus
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