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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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