Re: OFF: Name for a cat
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 30, 1999, 3:29 |
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On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:32:09 PDT, Danny Wier <dawier@...> wrote:
>_miao_ is the Mandarin word for 'cat', incidentally! Or is it _mao_, as=
in
>a certain Chinese communist leader...
It's "mao", but not the same tone as the Chinese communist leader's name.
I'm sure "miao" must mean something, though .... hmm, here's a "miao" =
with
a falling tone that means "wonderful, excellent, fine".
Oddly enough, I never named any of my cats in one of my conlangs, but I
gave my sister's cat a name in Olaetyan. (This was around 20 years ago =
when
I was in high school; it's been a long time since I had a cat.)
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