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|    William Vetter to Jymesion    |
|    Re: idioms    |
|    26 Sep 14 20:15:24    |
      From: mdhangton@gmail.com              On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:54:52 PM UTC-4, Jymesion wrote:              > Chinese - it's like ghost script       >       > Cantonese - it's like chicken intestines       >       I believe that these are references to Western alphabetic writing, and not       general as including speech or technical jargon.              This is a problem with these translation dictionaries and online lists. They       offer equivalent idioms, but the equivalents don't always have quite the same       scopes.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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