[ExI] tao

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:33 PM, CryptAxe <cryptaxe at gmail.com> wrote:

> I cant answer your question but I am very interested in seeing the answer.
> I just wanted to say you should also check out The Tao of Pooh, and Tao Te
> Cheng if you haven't already!
>

​I have both, and thanks!  I also have a few books by the Dalai Lama.
bill w​

>
> On Feb 21, 2017 12:30 PM, "William Flynn Wallace" <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Just got my copy of the Tao is Silent, and now a question or two:
>>
>> As we all know, no Chinese language has an alphabet.  So we must
>> translate Chinese characters to our alphabet.  So far, so good.
>>
>> So why is it that Tao is pronounced as if it were Dao?  Why not spell it
>> as it sounds- phoenetically?
>>
>> (Sorry, have to include my little joke here:  In the movie Smokey and the
>> Bandit, the sheriff asks another sheriff, a black man, a question, and the
>> black guy says "Is that germane?"  And the sheriff, Jackie Gleason, says
>> "What the hell do the Germans have to do with it?"  And so, my little
>> addition:  what do the Phoenecians have to do with alternate spelling?)
>>
>> And how about Deng, as is Mao Tse?  Pronounced as if it were spelled
>> Dung.  Now I can see this one in a sense.  So as not to slur Mao, we spell
>> Deng so as not to give offense.  I have no idea if this is the reason , or
>> what.
>>
>> Does anyone?
>>
>> bill w
>>
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