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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Learn to speak Chinese ! Quick Course #68500 05/02/02 12:20 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy OP Carpal Tunnel OP of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park we've had some threads on mondagreens, and on words, even native speakers have trouble with, so this is offered in a spirit of good fun--Read them aloud...and enjoy. 1. That's not right.........Sum Ting Wong 2. Are you harboring a fugitive?......Hu Yu Hai Ding 3. See me ASAP.......................Kum Hia Nao 4. Stupid Man.........................Dum Gai 5. Small Horse..................Tai Ni Po Ni 6. Did you go to the beach?....Wai Yu So Tan 7. I bumped into a coffee table....Ai Bang Mai Ni 8. I think you need a face lift.....Chin Tu Fat 9. It's very dark in here......Wao So Dim 10. I thought you were on a diet....Wai Yu Mun Ching 11. This is a tow away zone.....No Pah King 12. Our meeting is scheduled for next week...Wai Yu Kum Nao? 13. Staying out of sight.....Lei Ying Lo 14. He's cleaning his automobile....Wa Shing Ka 15. Your body odor is offensive.......Yu Stin Ki Pu my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Learn to speak Chinese ! Quick Course #68501 05/06/02 06:06 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England I think I've prolly mentioned this before, but when I was teaching I had a Vietnamese student whose name was, without a word of a lie, Hung Lam I found myself having to force myself to resist comments like "Well, Hung Lam?" TEd, I'm sure, would have been thrown out of the place on his ear before the end of the first day. Temptation, temptation! The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Temptation, temptation! #68502 05/06/02 10:24 AM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC Actually, no. I almost never make puns about a person's name. That's hitting too close to home. Now what I'm thinking is another matter. Ask my friend Michael X. Hunt. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Temptation, temptation! #68503 05/06/02 01:01 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 819 Portland,Oregon, USA G Geoff old hand Geoff old hand G Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 819 Portland,Oregon, USA Here in Portland, Oregon, there used to be a Chinese restaurant called Hung Far Low.(really! Ar 112 NW 4th Ave.) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Temptation, temptation! #68504 05/06/02 01:10 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Hung Far Low. Sounds like a ewwwwwwphamism© to me, Sweet Geoff. I just assigned you the copyright to that, by the way. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter "Progress" #68505 05/06/02 02:47 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,557 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,557 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA I thought it was supposed to be "Learning Chinese is a five-year course in humility." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: "Progress" #68506 05/07/02 01:20 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 819 Portland,Oregon, USA G Geoff old hand Geoff old hand G Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 819 Portland,Oregon, USA I thought it was supposed to be "Learning Chinese is a five-year course in humility." And there's the quasi-meterological term, "Relative Humility" that describes how much you sweat trying not to screw up the pronunciation! Fat choi! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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