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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Jun 1997.
Re: ARMANDO!! Female Chinese Character:

Re: ARMANDO!! Female Chinese Character:

Seal do Mar (l33...@alfa.ist.utl.pt) posted --

>> "I love you" In Chinese:
 . . .
>         I was going through and saw "ARMANDO" in the subject ... well being
> my name I became curious ... any of this characters have anything to do
> with the name?

The Mandarin pronunciation is something like "waw eye knee" -- that
would be _wo ai ni_ in Pinyin romanization, _wo3 ai4 ni3_ with the
tones shown -- so the sound seems unrelated. _Wo3_ is "I," _ai4_ is
"love," and _ni3_ is "you."

Dan

--------- ,---`---, _` _|__|_   _| _ |  .  ,--Cast of---\  Shih: stone, rock
   /       _~/\~~    /  |__|   / |(_ |/ |  `-Characters-/  Chia: family, home
  /____   ___/|\/   /|` |__|   \_|__)|\ |                  Ch'i: luck, serenity
 /|    |   __/| \_   | _|__|_  Dan Strychalski               (pronunciation:
/ |____|    \_|      |  /  \   dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.tw*  "shr jeeAH chee")

*"twx* in the header is for the 'bots.

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From: dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.twx (Dan Strychalski)
Subject: Re: ARMANDO!! Female Chinese Character:
Date: 1997/06/06
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