RE: Marilyn Monroe -Reply

[Frank Nguyen <frank.nguyen@medtronic.com>]

Hello ba'c Ian and all,

No'i to+'i chuye^.n phie^n a^m tie^'ng Ta`u qua tie^'ng Ta tu+` nhu+~ng
chu+~ ngoa.i quo^'c to^i cho+.t nho+' chu+~ na`y, ddo.c o+? dda^u ddo'
kho^ng nho+':  <Ye^n-si~-phi-ly'-thua^`n>\.  Chu+~ na`y Ta`u no' phie^n a^m
tu+` <Inspiration>, cu~ng ho+i kho' di.ch ne^n Ta`u no' dde^? nguye^n ma`
phie^n a^m, Ta cu~ng la^'y theo ddo' ma` vie^'t, ca'ch dda^y la^u la('m
ro^`i\.  Tha^.t kho^i ha`i\.

The^' nhu+ng co' nhu+~ng chu+~ ddo.c le^n nghe cu~ng thua^.n tai va`
<dde.p> la('m, cha(?ng ha.n nhu+:  Hoa Thi.nh DDo^'n:  Washington, Ma.c Tu+
Khoa:  Moscow, Lua^n DDo^n:  London, Ba Le^:  Paris, Pha'p La~ng Sa (Pha'p
in short):  France, U'c DDa.i Lo+.i (U'c in short):  Australia ... va` co`n
nhie^`u nu+~a!  A(n thua chi? la` quen du`ng hay kho^ng ma` tho^i, pha?i
kho^ng ca'c ba'c ?

Tha^n,
FN

>>> Ian Bui <ianb@sun670.telecom.tandem.com> - 4/7/97 7:29 PM >>>

Hello ba'c Frank and everyone,

There was hardly anything riveting about the "Ma~ Le^. Ye^'n 
Mo^.ng Lo^~" story. It got stuck in my mind simply because of 
the hilariousness of it when Mr. Le Thuong told it to the class.

It's been almost a quarter-century and I can only remember
very vaguely the lesson of that day. I think he was explaining 
the Chinese way of phoneticizing Western names and converting
them into Chinese characters. In the process somehow the "R"s
turned into "L"s; and as we converted the Chinese terms into
Vietnamese the result sometimes sounded quite funny -- as was
in the case of Marilyn Monroe :))

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Ian