At 10:18 AM 9/1/96 -0700, Jack wrote:

<snip Venkarels question...which is being answered many times,
many ways>

OK, time to have a linguistics lesson.

        Goody.

Takahashi made this a joke. It just so happens that those three names 
translate into English, from Japanese into bathroom products. If they 
were translated directly from CHinese, it would be X'ian Pu, Kou Long, 
and Mu Su. I don't think you can get Conditioner or Bathrob from this. 
There are only a few sylibles (sp) in chinese that you can do this with. 
No, not all Chinese names sound like bathroom products. Take Lin Lin and 
Ran Ran for instance.

        you mean syllables (Im better than a spell checker sometimes).

The only other names I can think of that can turn into bathroom products 
are Lotion= Lou Xian and Mirror= Mi Er. Oh, I am fluent in Chinese and am 
always surrounded by my friends who all take Japanese.

        Cool.  Would this be Mandarin, Cantonese or one of those other dialects.

        From experience with my family, I know my name is pronounced differently
depending on the dialect.  (Sorry, my Chinese of any dialect is at about the
same
level as Japanese...limited to Thank you & close the door)


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(who thanks everyone for replying...she is becoming less confused)