[ExI] tao

[CryptAxe]

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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