Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 24 Apr 1997.
[REQUEST] Ying Yang
alt.ascii-art
· 16 messages · 24 Apr 1997 - 12 May 1997
Hi A friend of mine is beginning a Reiki practice from home & I'm trying to help her put together a nice brochure. She thought a nice Ying Yang symbol would be good for a header. If you have one (or more) or feel like building one it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. John Kenney Boston MA P.S. Please email two...@aol.com since I don't get here much. thnx.
if you get one, could you send me a copy?
mcclure111 (mcc...@earthlink.net) wrote:
> if you get one, could you send me a copy?
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mcclure111 (mcc...@earthlink.net) wrote on 26 Apr 97 20:31:58 -0500: : if you get one, could you send me a copy? : : This guy has a yingyang in his signature: ,o888b,`?88888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888P',d888o, ,8888 888 ?888 Alcatraz 888P 888 8888, 8888888P' 888 Brandon Thomas 888 ?8888888 888P' 888 zar...@geocities.com 888 `?888 `88 O d888 bth...@mail.coin.missouri.edu 888b O 88' `?._ _.o88888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888o._ _.P' Good karma to ya, Joey. ____________________________________________________ | | | \|/|/\| Paul "Joey" Clark | | ,'^^ \/\-|) mailto:pc5...@bris.ac.uk | | / OO |/(|) http://irix.bris.ac.uk/~pc5065/ | | o_ _/ /|\\// "Do farts show up on infra-red?" | | ^ ^ ^ ^ | `----------------------------------------------------'
In article <199...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, two...@aol.com (Twodobes) writes: >She thought a nice Ying Yangsymbol would be >good for a header. I did some playing around and came up with these two: -=[ Ying- Yangs ]=- _.----._ sgj .' / _ '. / | (_) \ | \ | | '. | | _ `\ | \ (_) | / '._ / _.' jgs '----' _.ooo-._ sgj .OOOOP _ '. dOOOOO (_) \ OOOOOOb | OOOOOOOb. | OOOOOOOOOb | YOO(_)OOOO / 'OOOOOOY _.' jgs '""""'' -joan -- __ _,--="=--,_ __ / \." .-. "./ \ / ,/ _ : : _ \/` \ \ `| /o\ :_: /o\ |\__/ `-'| :="~` _ `~"=: | \` (_) `/ jgs .-"-. \ | / .-"-. .-----{ }--| /,.-'-.,\ |--{ }-----. ) (_)_)_) \_/`~-===-~`\_/ (_(_(_) ( ( joan stark ) ) < spu...@juno.com > ( ( ASCII ART GALLERY: ) ) < http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/ > ( '-------------------------------------------'
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------34E62ADE130D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Spunk1111 wrote: > > In article <199...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, > two...@aol.com (Twodobes) writes: > >She thought a nice Ying Yangsymbol would be > >good for a header. > I did some playing around and came up with these two: > -=[ Ying- Yangs ]=- <snip> Those are yin-yangs, not ying-yangs... *sigh* It's the 1489123510 time I've seen it misspelled... BTW..loved the touch of reversing the initials :) (Below are all my yin-yangs...) -erik <http://wigwam.askoyv.no/Ascii> DITLEF __ __ \ \/ / > < /_/\_\ EXODUS -- (Please remove ".spam.please" from my email before replying) .______________________________________________________. | .:' E______.R_____.I____.K_.____. | | __ :'__ ) ____) ) ) / / | | .'`__`-'__``. / ____/ O </ / -< | | :__________.-' /______(__/\___(____(___\___( | | :_________: <:::Wigwam Internet Community:::> | | :_________`-; ID: Erik K. Veland (aka grim) | |jgs`.__.-.__.' Mail: ekv...@online.no | |_N_E_W___U_R_L___!_!_!___N_E_W___U_R_L___!_!_!___N_E_W| | Wigwam Internet Community: http://wigwam.askoyv.no | !______________________________________________________! --------------34E62ADE130D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="74747874" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="yinyang.asc"
In a message dated 97-05-01 12:23:51 EDT, you write: > Those are yin-yangs, not ying-yangs... > *sigh* > It's the 1489123510 time I've seen it misspelled... > BTW..loved the touch of reversing the initials :) Sorry Erik! I didn't consult my dictionary on this one! :) I made those YIN-yangs kindof late at night... I was getting slap-happy with the initials! hehehe -joan -- , /\^/`\ __ \/ __ | \/ | /o \{}/ o\ | | | \ () / SPRING IS IN THE AIR! \ \ / `> /\ <` _ _ '\\//' (o/\/\o) _{ ' }_ || ) ( joan stark { `.!.` } || <spu...@juno.com> ',_/Y\_,' || , {_,_} |\ || |\ | | | || | | ASCII ART GALLERY: (\| /) | | || / / <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/> \| // \ \||/ / |// jgs `\\//` \\ \./ \\ / // \\./ \\ // \\ |/ / ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dan Larkin wrote: > Just curious.... > Isn't it "yinyang"? I think this has been mentioned before, but yes, you're right. Yin - positive aspect, light (associated with the male gender, rightly or not) Yang - negative aspect, darkness (ditto female) Samurai Dragon -==UDIC==-
It was my impression that it is called a YIN YAN -- Asian languages don't really have 'angs' and 'ings' in their language. Am I wrong on this? In article <336...@online.no>, ekv...@online.no.spam.please wrote: >>> Those are yin-yangs, not ying-yangs... >>> *sigh* >>> >>> It's the 1489123510 time I've seen it misspelled... -- Lori Russell <lor...@rockies.net>
Samurai Dragon wrote: > > Dan Larkin wrote: > > Just curious.... > > Isn't it "yinyang"? > > I think this has been mentioned before, but yes, you're right. > > Yin - positive aspect, light (associated with the male gender, rightly > or not) > Yang - negative aspect, darkness (ditto female) > > Samurai Dragon > -==UDIC==- How about ping-pong ? -- ----- `,---------------------------------------------- ,\, # joris bellenger (b'ger) |/ ? e-mail: svz...@xs4all.nl ----| ~ )\--------------------------------------------- /__/\ \____ / \_/ \ ascii-art gallery at: / <_ ____,_ \ http://www.afn.org/~afn39695/bger.htm --/___/_____ \---------------------------------------- \/|
Vadim Vygonets wrote: > > joris bellenger (svz...@xs4all.nl) wrote: > > Samurai Dragon wrote: > > > > > > Dan Larkin wrote: > > > > Just curious.... > > > > Isn't it "yinyang"? > > > > > > I think this has been mentioned before, but yes, you're right. > > > > > > Yin - positive aspect, light (associated with the male gender, rightly > > > or not) > > > Yang - negative aspect, darkness (ditto female) > > > > > > Samurai Dragon > > > -==UDIC==- > > Ok, Yin is not positive, nor Yang is negative. Its just white / > black, light / dark, active / passive, male / female. The male / > female association is because of the activeness / passiveness, not > something like positive / negative or good / bad. > > > How about ping-pong ? > > Everybody knows that ping is active and pong is passive, right? > Hmmm... lets see what the majority thinks... but I *don't* mean by "voting" here at alt.ascii-art or by bombing my mail box! I mean, lets see how many answers Alta Vista gives on some possible spellings: yin yan 71 yin yang 5000 ying yan 53 ying yang 800 yin and yan 18 yin and yang 500 ying and yan 1 ying and yang 100 yinyan 272 yinyang 6549 yingyan 12 yingyang 1305 Well, it looks as if a clear winner is "yin" combined with "yang", followed by "ying" combined with "yang". This is not an absolute result, only a measurement of how the people on the web seem to consider these words should be spelled. -- :) Veronica Karlsson ( e93...@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ ) ( llizard's animation site: http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/docs/ )
Veronica Karlsson wrote: > > Vadim Vygonets wrote: > > > > joris bellenger (svz...@xs4all.nl) wrote: > > > Samurai Dragon wrote: > > > > > > > > Dan Larkin wrote: > > > > > Just curious.... > > > > > Isn't it "yinyang"? > Hmmm... lets see what the majority thinks... but I *don't* mean by > "voting" here at alt.ascii-art or by bombing my mail box! I mean, lets > see how many answers Alta Vista gives on some possible spellings: > > yin yan 71 > yin yang 5000 > ying yan 53 > ying yang 800 > > yin and yan 18 > yin and yang 500 > ying and yan 1 > ying and yang 100 > > yinyan 272 > yinyang 6549 > yingyan 12 > yingyang 1305 > > Well, it looks as if a clear winner is "yin" combined with "yang", > followed by "ying" combined with "yang". This is not an absolute result, > only a measurement of how the people on the web seem to consider these > words should be spelled. Conclusion is that it is quite controversial and we really shouldn't start a discussion over it. ;-) Lets leave it some yin yang newsgroup. ;-) Edwin
Veronica Karlsson wrote: > > Vadim Vygonets wrote: > > > > joris bellenger (svz...@xs4all.nl) wrote: > > > Samurai Dragon wrote: > > > > > > > > Dan Larkin wrote: > > > > > Just curious.... > > > > > Isn't it "yinyang"? > > > > > > > > I think this has been mentioned before, but yes, you're right. > > > > > > > > Yin - positive aspect, light (associated with the male gender, rightly > > > > or not) > > > > Yang - negative aspect, darkness (ditto female) > > > > > > > > Samurai Dragon > > > > -==UDIC==- > > > > Ok, Yin is not positive, nor Yang is negative. Its just white / > > black, light / dark, active / passive, male / female. The male / > > female association is because of the activeness / passiveness, not > > something like positive / negative or good / bad. > > > > > How about ping-pong ? > > > > Everybody knows that ping is active and pong is passive, right? > > > > Hmmm... lets see what the majority thinks... but I *don't* mean by > "voting" here at alt.ascii-art or by bombing my mail box! I mean, lets > see how many answers Alta Vista gives on some possible spellings: > > yin yan 71 > yin yang 5000 > ying yan 53 > ying yang 800 > > yin and yan 18 > yin and yang 500 > ying and yan 1 > ying and yang 100 > > yinyan 272 > yinyang 6549 > yingyan 12 > yingyang 1305 > > Well, it looks as if a clear winner is "yin" combined with "yang", > followed by "ying" combined with "yang". This is not an absolute > result, only a measurement of how the people on the web seem to > consider these words should be spelled. > > -- > :) > Veronica Karlsson > (e93...@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ ) > (llizard's animation site: http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/docs/ ) What number did you look at? here's an example search: ,this one? Word count: yang ying: about 85 Documents 1-10 of about 71 matching the query, best matches first. `or this one? Word count: yang yin: about 200 Documents 1-10 of about 200 matching the query, best matches first. Word count: yan yin: about 29 Documents 1-10 of 25 matching the query, best matches first. Word count: yan ying: about 26 Documents 1-10 of 25 matching the query, best matches first. yang yin seems to be quite popular :-) Greetz, -- _____ _ _ _ ,-'`. | __| |_|_|_____ ___ ___ _| | _ _ _ _ ___ ,'`.,-'`. |__ | | | | _| . | . | | \ / \ |\| ' | /`.,'`.,-'`. |_____|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| |___|___| |_/ \_/ | | | (`./`-,'`.,-'`. _ _ _ _ _ _ \.\.( `,'`.,-' Herman Hiddema |_) /| |\| | / ` )`\ |.|`,' Venuslaan 147 c | /"| | | | \_, ,' \/`) /.| 9742 KN Groningen ,-'"`-. / \,'\/`( ( The Netherlands //// / @ @ \ \\\\ \,'`./`./`.\ tel. 050-5775373 \ :=| ,._,. |=: / \ ,'\ /\ ) mailto:csg...@wing.rug.nl || ,\ \_../ /. || \ ,; \,' http://huizen.dds.nl/~shimrod/ ||','`-._))'`.`|| `: \.' `-' (/ `-' `./ Now there's a man who knows where his towel is!
Hmmmm... we all knew what the request was all about, it seems, regardless
of spelling...
How about this one... which is correct: favorite -or- favourite?
(just stirring the current a little) ;)
-joan
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Vadim Vygonets (vad...@robin.cs.huji.ac.il) wrote: > joris bellenger (svz...@xs4all.nl) wrote: > > Samurai Dragon wrote: > > > > > > Dan Larkin wrote: > > > > Just curious.... > > > > Isn't it "yinyang"? > > > > > > I think this has been mentioned before, but yes, you're right. > > > > > > Yin - positive aspect, light (associated with the male gender, rightly > > > or not) > > > Yang - negative aspect, darkness (ditto female) Ok, I've been reading a bit about this, sorry but this is off topic: It is Yin Yang ... Yin and Yang are not absolut values. Yin is only Yin when related to Yang and vice versa. Generally male, light, superior, hot is Yang when related to female darkness, inferior and cold. Old ancients defined yang like the sunny side of the hill and yin the shadow side. But don't forget, for example, a woman that is yin related to a man is yang related to a "more yin" woman. Yin and yang do not exist without the other, there is no meaning to yin without yang or to yang without yin. have fun :) -- ---_.------------------------------------------------------------------------ ( ` /) , /| / Armando Frazao \ _ _ // _/ _ / |/| _ _ l33...@alfa.ist.utl.pt . )_(/_(_(_(/_ (_(_(_) . / / | (_(_/ (_ http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~l33812 `--'----------------------`-'-----`-'----------------------------------------
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