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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: Re: Reduplication (Pinyin not Pidgin)
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 02:57:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 16 02:57:55 1985
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> > >	To'ngzhi`men do~u ga~o-gao-xi`ng-xing-de go~ngzuo`.
> > >	comrades     all      glad-glad          work 
>
> > ..where "ga~oxi`ng" (glad), being duplicated, means (very glad).

> --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")

Hmmm, at first I didn't understand it - it looks so much more readable as:

                    /   \     -   -      \          -  \
                  Tongzhimen dou gaogao xingxingde gongzuo.  

(With - for 1st tone, the ~ is too reminescent of 3rd tone - I use v.)

No, actually the sole reason for this note is that once after a Chinese joke
I got a letter from someone who was confusing 1) Cantonese with Mandarin, and
2) Pinyin - which is the official Chinese Transliteration  with Pidgin, which
I'm not even sure what that would be as far as the above goes.
	I don't think the mistake was made in the above instance. I just
wanted to clear that up.

 
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				Craig Werner
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