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Hi there bums,

 

Besides getting a glorious new Yin Wood Goat in our header, you may have noticed we've also gotten a name change.

 

To explain, very simply, in the last year I've been getting a bit more serious with my Mandarin studies. The mishmash of defunct Wade-Giles and modern Pinyin was really getting to me.

 

Apologies to anyone with strong attachments to the T.  :ph34r:

 
It may take some getting used to, but I hope it's a change for the better. Maybe one that encourages us all, at least in some small way, to more deeply appreciate the rich language underlying much of our interests here.
 
Let me know your thoughts and feelings.
 
And especially please report any glitches or anomalies.
 
Thank you!
 
*deep bow*
 

Sean

 

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Yes it will definitely take some getting used to but whatever works. :)

 

The site is going to be screwed up on google for a while though.  :P

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Yes it will definitely take some getting used to but whatever works. :)

 

The site is going to be screwed up on google for a while though.  :P

 

I am a pedantic one for using Dao instead of Tao... but the original wording did works it way into my heart :)

 

When our business website changed names, there are redirection methods which can be employed for quite a while... I suspect members will be over it before google  :D

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"I've been getting a bit more serious with my Mandarin studies"

 its good to be serious and disciplined, otherwise who knows what may end up flying around,,,,,

 

 

 

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"I've been getting a bit more serious with my Mandarin studies"

 its good to be serious and disciplined, otherwise who knows what may end up flying around,,,,,

 

 

 

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is that taken from the Thai movie, Hely Kop Ter??  :D

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@ct, i first saw the photo while i was reading this thread , so i posted for the sake of synchronicity.

it came from  http://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/12/Buddhist-Monks-Playing-Quidditch/

 

aslo, i would prefer to keep my name zerostao   :ph34r:

lol some misunderstanding there, dear friend. That was a little spoof on Harry Potter i made there...

 

Hely Kop Ter 

Harry Potter

Helicopter

 

Get it now? hehe... 

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lol some misunderstanding there, dear friend. That was a little spoof on Harry Potter i made there...

 

Hely Kop Ter 

Harry Potter

Helicopter

 

Get it now? hehe... 

ima little slow ya know. dont see me riding on brooms etc, sure looks fun tho

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ima little slow ya know. dont see me riding on brooms etc, sure looks fun tho

 

It looks like a pain in the testes to me.

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Good to hear a word out of you Sean, even if it is for generic changes.

Frankly, I don't give a tsit about spelling.

Hope to see you sharing more the spelling philsophy soon.

Yours

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(...)

 

To explain, very simply, in the last year I've been getting a bit more serious with my Mandarin studies. The mishmash of defunct Wade-Giles and modern Pinyin was really getting to me.

(...)

but I hope it's a change for the better.

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:unsure:

 

Now I need a nickname-change.

I selected DAO rain TAO in a dramatic outburst of creativity: my nick in my native language means "From now on TAO (bums)".

 

Is it possible to change nickname?

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Apologies to anyone with strong attachments to the T.  :ph34r:

 

Not my cup of T. (Are we The Coffeeao Bums now?)

But seriously, the new name fits to a T.

 

By dhe dao, your user didle isn'd updaded yed.

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aslo, i would prefer to keep my name zerostao   :ph34r:

 

And I will keep Taomeow.   After all the correct Romanization for Jesus Christ is Yehoshua Ga-Nozri, but ...........(insert a socio-cultural-historic-linguistic argument I am too lazy to formulate).

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