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From: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Worst of the Bay
Message-ID: <805@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 13:28:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: ptsfa.805
Posted: Wed Aug 14 13:28:38 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 01:51:35 EDT
References: <450@olivee.UUCP> <132@cadsys.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco
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In article <132@cadsys.UUCP> bbaker@cadsys.UUCP (William Baker) writes:
>> Well, once again I've stumbled onto another incredibly BAD
>> eating establishment.  What's amazing is that it has just
>> opened for business in the exact location of the last place
>> I panned!
>> 
>> Its name -   Tai Pan (Inc.)
>> 
>
>Ironically, a tai-pan is the chinese word for the master of a whorehouse
>or a public toilet.  It's amazing the things you pick up from
>reading too many James Clavell novels...

Not necessarily. Many different Chinese syllables get transliterated
the same way in English if only for the fact that distinguishing
tones are not indicated in the transliteration.
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