<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Giovanni Santostasi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gsantostasi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gsantostasi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Here a good explanation:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.taoistic.com/tao-dao.htm" target="_blank">http://www.taoistic.com/tao-<wbr>dao.htm</a></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Very helpful -thanks! bill w</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:33 PM, CryptAxe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptaxe@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptaxe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">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!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-6336982994494417123h5">On Feb 21, 2017 12:30 PM, "William Flynn Wallace" <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-6336982994494417123h5"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Just got my copy of the Tao is Silent, and now a question or two:</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">As we all know, no Chinese language has an alphabet. So we must translate Chinese characters to our alphabet. So far, so good.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">So why is it that Tao is pronounced as if it were Dao? Why not spell it as it sounds- phoenetically? </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">(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?)</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Does anyone?</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div>
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