Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ylee From: ylee@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Sayings Message-ID: <19000039@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 14:33:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.19000039 Posted: Wed Jan 9 14:33:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 00:03:21 EST References: <1879@burdvax.UUCP> Lines: 7 Nf-ID: #R:burdvax:-187900:uiucdcs:19000039:000:194 Nf-From: uiucdcs!ylee Jan 9 13:33:00 1985 In Chinese, the verbs used in "turn off the lights" and "close the door" are the same. You might say that "close the lights" is Chinese English. Didn't you hear she say "open the lights?"