Re: Anyone here literate in Chinese?


Zeborah wrote:
Daniel R. Reitman <dreitman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2 Aug 2006 08:48:23 -0700, "Gary Thompson" <quuxa23@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I need a sort of visual pun in Chinese characters. The idea is
that in the middle of writing out an address someone kills a fly on the
page, resulting in the main character going to the wrong place. So
what is required are two characters, one short stroke apart, preferably
as diametrically opposed as possible--Gold St. vs. Pig Sty Alley, for
example.

Can anyone help?

"One" is basically a horizontal line. "Ten" looks like a plus sign.

True, and being simple quite likely to be an excellent solution, though
it's not really a *short* stroke apart.

Glancing at my Chinese-English dictionary, there are bound to be a great
many candidates. It'd just take me a good hour or so to find one whose
plausibility I could be halfway interested in investigating further with
someone actually qualified; my own Chinese skills are not remotely close
to even a very generous definition of passable.


I'll just go ahead and check with my old Chinese history professor once
school goes back into session. Thanks for the effort from everyone,
though.

.

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