[ExI] tao

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Giovanni Santostasi <gsantostasi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Here a good explanation:
>
> http://www.taoistic.com/tao-dao.htm
>
>
​Very helpful -thanks!  bill w

​

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:33 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!
>>
>> 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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