Comments on: Remodeled Digs For Rerun http://www.zen.org/2005/01/25/remodeled-digs-for-zenorg/ The thoughts, ideas, habits, and interests of a sub-culture. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:13:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sven Heinicke http://www.zen.org/2005/01/25/remodeled-digs-for-zenorg/#comment-188 Sven Heinicke Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:41:32 +0000 http://www.zen.org/?p=235#comment-188 My wife's family is from Hong Kong, so her family talks in Cantonese. "Yu Ai Lei" is probably the Mandarin pronunciation, but it's close. As my wife says I can't say in right in Cantonese I will not try. To be Honoest I call her Daphne when talking, I'm just a Unicode fan (see my <a href="http://sven.heinicke.org/hats.html"><i>English Words with Letters with Hats</i> page</a> for more geekness), and will use nearly any excuse to use non-ASCII characters. My father finds it a little outré. The first character "ä½™" is her family name, I've never been given a meaning. I've been told that "艾蕾" does refer to some sort of flower bud. While Daphne's sister is "余艾詩", so she is a mugwort poem. My wife’s family is from Hong Kong, so her family talks in Cantonese. “Yu Ai Lei” is probably the Mandarin pronunciation, but it’s close. As my wife says I can’t say in right in Cantonese I will not try. To be Honoest I call her Daphne when talking, I’m just a Unicode fan (see my English Words with Letters with Hats page for more geekness), and will use nearly any excuse to use non-ASCII characters. My father finds it a little outré.

The first character “ä½™” is her family name, I’ve never been given a meaning. I’ve been told that “艾蕾” does refer to some sort of flower bud. While Daphne’s sister is “余艾詩”, so she is a mugwort poem.

]]> By: Michael http://www.zen.org/2005/01/25/remodeled-digs-for-zenorg/#comment-187 Michael Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:36:47 +0000 http://www.zen.org/?p=235#comment-187 Hi Sven, linguistic musing - is 余艾蕾 - Yu Ai Lei in Simplified Chinese?. If I babelfish it like that, it suggests: "Odd (don't know if that's in the sense of 'unusual' or 'not even') Chinese Mugwort Flower bud". I know next to nothing about Chinese names but a Chinese friend of mine and his three brothes all have names which are derived from plants or parts of plants (leaf/branch etc. ). Just wondering if 余艾蕾 fitted the pattern too? If not enter pun on 'barking' up wrong 'tree' here -> ! Hi Sven, linguistic musing - is 余艾蕾 - Yu Ai Lei in Simplified Chinese?. If I babelfish it like that, it suggests: “Odd (don’t know if that’s in the sense of ‘unusual’ or ‘not even’) Chinese Mugwort Flower bud”. I know next to nothing about Chinese names but a Chinese friend of mine and his three brothes all have names which are derived from plants or parts of plants (leaf/branch etc. ). Just wondering if 余艾蕾 fitted the pattern too? If not enter pun on ‘barking’ up wrong ‘tree’ here -> !

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