Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Somewhat OT? :-) What does it take to be totally OT here? :-) First and most important question, which dialect? The two most common ones are Mandarin (official language) and Cantonese (most HK and a good part of oversea Chinese who are from HK). Taiwanese/Fukianese is also very common amongst oversea Chinese. You are learn a lot by clicking on www.zhongwen.com Click on "ma" on the pronunciation link got you mother, horse, question, being-mad, first part of ants, etc. Lots of stuff.... Have fun. At 01:07 PM 8/17/2003 -0700, Joseph Codispoti wrote: >Sorry to deviate from cheap wines, battery-less Polaroids etc. > >The word "Ma" in Chinese, depending on its intonation, means "mother", >"horse", "scolding", and a fourth definition which escapes at the moment. I >would like to ask some of our Chinese friends the complete translation for >the word "Ma" and a description for all its intonations. And, if I may be so >greedy, for the Chinese characters for each definition. > >Many she-she in advance. >Joseph Codispoti >... // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> <http://www.dragonsgate.net/mailman/listinfo> - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html