C-PALSY Archives

Cerebral Palsy List

C-PALSY@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG
Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Condense Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Content-Transfer-Encoding:
7bit
Sender:
"St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:
Re: Easter 2001
From:
Bobby Greer <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sun, 15 Apr 2001 14:54:56 EDT
Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
MIME-Version:
1.0
Reply-To:
"St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List" <[log in to unmask]>
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (15 lines) 
In a message dated 4/15/01 5:26:24 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

<< I share your sentiments in all their positive connotations, but have to
smile at your particular choice of phrasing, among the Chinese telling
someone "May you live in interesting times" is considered to be a terrible
curse!
    Susan >>

Susan,

    That is very interesting!! I never knew the full meaning of that saying.
Guess it depends on the semantic equivalent of "interesting" in Chinese.

Bobby

ATOM RSS1 RSS2