On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 05:02:14AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Anthony Fok, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >Actually, AFAIK, Mitsubishi stands for "Three Diamonds". Mitsu is "three" > >in Japanese, so I guess that means "bishi" is diamond. :-) > > Yes, it's actually a geometric diamond as opposed to the stone...
Oh yeah, you are right! :-) (I almost forgot, even though the Chinese (or Hanji or Kanji) version means Three Diamond (geometric). :-) > >(In Chinese, we call it "San Ling", i.e. Three Diamonds. I wonder if it is > >written the same way in both Chinese and Japanese. :-) > > Other similar examples have been this way, so I suspect this one would > be as well... Neat stuff! You know Japanese also? :-) (Of course, sometimes, two same phrase/word in Chinese and Japanese sometimes mean something totally different, because the usage has changed over the years or sometimes the Japanese has adapted the words for other uses, etc. :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling Civil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ or http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/OLVC/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
