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Re: and in Chinese

To: Colin Mills <Colin.Mills@bluewin.ch>, Tiger List
Subject: Re: and in Chinese
From: "Paul J. Burr" <tigerpb@ids.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 20:35:13 -0400
"guang mang lao hu"? Wasn't that a late 50's do-wop hit?  ;-)


Paul





on 9/3/01 4:18 PM, Colin Mills at Colin.Mills@bluewin.ch wrote:

> Just as a change from cooling/steering/technical problems.
> 
> I was in China last week (Guilin), and ascertained that the literal
> (rather than phonetic) translation of Sunbeam Tiger is something like
> "guang mang lao hu" (with a down-and-up accent on both third and fourth
> words).  So if anybody asks you, now you know.
> 
> I have the Chinese characters for both the literal and phonetic
> translations, too, but they're difficult to reproduce on this keyboard
> ...

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