Chinese languages

Hi Mark, Could it be confusion about the tone marks? Bodman's "tǐt-thaǔ" would be "tịt thàu" or "tit8-thau3" in POJ romanization (直 by itself would be tît in Bodman, but he always indicates tone sandhi in compound words). Checking tit8-thau3 in Douglas, I get tịt-thaù-j...

Hi guys,

Was this the thread you were looking for?

http://www.chinalanguage.com/forums/vie ... c5702b466f

I found it via google ...

Cheers,
Aurelio

Hi everybody! Thanks for the good wishes, Sim, I wish you the best, too. I am still very excited about my virtual copy of Douglas. The only thing that kept bugging me was the amount of scrolling required to get to the middle of a section ... until I realized the value of creating your own bookmarks ...

Hi everybody! When it rains, it pours :-) I had just stopped by to say thanks for "Douglas with 漢字" and got another dictionary in return :-) Thank you! BTW: Sim, Niuc, Andrew, Mark & al.: Great to see everybody still here and the forum so active :-) Let me use this opportunity to wish ...

大家好! Ah-bin and Sim, thanks so much! This is a great find :-) Ordered the book & CD right away after I saw your recommendations. I don't think a day has gone by since without me using it :-) I was most excited to see that the majority of the characters are the 本字 - clearly picked by somebody who...

Hi Heruler, Long time no see - sorry for not answering earlier, the last couple of weeks have been extremely busy. For the same reason, I will only give a very short reply today, my apologies. Thanks for explaining your working model in another thread. As far as data collection goes, I am very happy...

Hi everybody,

This topic came up a long time ago ... may have been 5 years by now There was the same concern that the 'chiah ba be' part may be taken a bit too literally Somebody else enquired whether we should be concerned about Ah-Lians coming to eat us all ... hehehe

Best,
Aurelio

Hi everybody,

Quiet again here. Only the spam-vultures are posting. I wonder how they find us In any case, a big thanks to the moderator(s) for cleaning this up every once in a while - it's appreciated.

Aurelio

Hi again, I thought I should explain why I think it's a waste of time to try to find a connection between those languages: If you look within the IndoEuropean languages, you'll find a lot of words which are obviously related across the entire continent. I'll give you a few examples: (1) night - prot...

Dear Heruler, Sorry to hear about your bad experience in LA - any kind of theft is extremely annoying, hope you didn't lose too much! I have just come back from a business trip to Brazil, where a friend of mine was robbed at gunpoint (!) of both his car and laptop ... at least the robbers left him h...