> From: Kenneth Whistler [mailto:kenw@sybase.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 11:34 AM
> > Actually, if he's half Jamaican, I think you have to
> say "Go mon",
> > which is also the Japanese for 50,000, yes?
>
> No, actually, it is Japanese for "5th question", although
> that seems to be only your first question. goman is Japanese for
> 50,000.
Hmmm - this illustrates an interesting problem in linguistics. I
was using English semantics for the letters "a" and "o", whereas Ken was
using Romaji semantics. Maybe I should have written it in IPA - except I
don't know IPA.
Such is life,
/|/|ike
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