Re: [Taoscript-lang] Thou shan't call thy language 'Tao'...

[Josef 'J. S. <ju...@gm...>]

Hi!

At Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:08:20 +0200, Limin Fu wrote:

> The name of the language is something disturbed me from time to
> time. I found it's very hard to find a good name for it, it seems
> good names are always used by somebody for something :-(. Before I
> used another name Yuan for this language, but it is also used as
> certain terminologies in Chinese(e.g. Yuan language, also means meta
> language), in addition, I found if difficult for non-chinese to
> pronounce it correctly.

It is usually difficult for any non-native to pronounce words
correctly.

> One candidate name is Dao, which is essentially the same as Tao in
> Chinese, Dao is the official pronouncation of that Chinese word,
> while Tao the is the pronouncation in some dialect. If I use Dao, I
> don't need to change its Chinese name :-).

So far I only knew 'Dao' as a first name of the fictional character
"Dao Lin-H'ay" that occurs in the German SF series 'Perry Rhodan' -
before you ask: she definitely cannot be Chinese because she is a
feline extraterrestrian.

Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT
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