Posted by: BrianS
Translations - 12/22/06 08:07 PM
What can or can not be translated to kanji?
Names? Anything we want?
Just curious..
Names? Anything we want?
Just curious..
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Just as an aside, American, England, France, Portugal are called by the Chinese as:-
America = Mei Guo (Mei = beautiful, Guo = country) what they did was to just use the sound of the 'mer' in Amer and called the country 'Mei'
So, do the chinese names for these countries bear the 'correct meaning' they ascribe to them?
America is beautiful,
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Boy howdy, do they:
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*Tattooed on small of Carmen's back in multicolored lettering - "RODMAN WAS HERE MO-FO"*
Beautiful but oh so tainted!
Scottie
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Hm, if I'm not wrong, England can also be said as 'ying1 ge2 lan2', right?
Celest