RE: FRIDAY FUN: Snow day!

["Brian Henderson" <brian-henderson -at- cox -dot- net>]

Although not in the same vein as misunderstood slang, the subject reminds me of something I was told
by Chinese national from Beijing. He said that "southern" Chinese (I don't remember the name he used
for the region) pronounce the number six in a way that most of the rest of China considers a very
naughty word (my friend was too shy to actually tell me what the word meant). Evidently, it's a very
widely known and very funny "quirk" of the people from the region.

-Brian Henderson
www.xywrite.com


-----Original Message----- John Garison

A number of years ago I was working in New Zealand and interviewing one
of the managing partners of my company for some reason or other. We was
telling me about a previous company and one of the products they had
developed. He said at one point "We released it, and it went like a
bomb.' Thinking it had 'bombed' I expressed my sympathy and allowed as I
had had some experience with products like that too.

He said - "Naaow (Kiwi-speak for No), it bloody exploded on the market!"

As Winston Churchill opined about the US and its [proper]
English-speaking cousins - "Two countries separated by a common language."


My 2¢,

John Garison

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