# Fortunate Cloud *The Urth list — 7 messages, 4 voices, 12 Jul 2010* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Mr Thalassocrat *12 Jul 2010, 14:12* (The name of Jonas' ship.) This may well have been pointed out a gadzillion years ago, but I don't remember ever seeing it. Apparently a "lucky cloud" is a very common traditional Chinese image. It was used extensively for the Beijing Olympics: eg http://colorbuzz.valsparblog.com/2008/08/the-lucky-cloud.html --- ### Gerry Quinn *12 Jul 2010, 14:26 · in reply to Mr Thalassocrat* It also fits with Jonas's description of names from his time which were similat to modern-day Chinese names. OFC 'Jonas' is not very Chinese. - Gerry Quinn From: Mr Thalassocrat (The name of Jonas' ship.) This may well have been pointed out a gadzillion years ago, but I don't remember ever seeing it. Apparently a "lucky cloud" is a very common traditional Chinese image. It was used extensively for the Beijing Olympics: eg http://colorbuzz.valsparblog.com/2008/08/the-lucky-cloud.html --- ### António Pedro Marques *12 Jul 2010, 16:17 · in reply to Gerry Quinn* Gerry Quinn wrote (12-07-2010 15:26): > It also fits with Jonas's description of names from his time which were > similat to modern-day Chinese names. > OFC 'Jonas' is not very Chinese. It may be a misheard korean name. --- ### Gerry Quinn *12 Jul 2010, 16:56 · in reply to António Pedro Marques* > From: "Ant?nio Pedro Marques" > Gerry Quinn wrote (12-07-2010 15:26): >> It also fits with Jonas's description of names from his time which were >> similat to modern-day Chinese names. >> OFC 'Jonas' is not very Chinese. > It may be a misheard korean name. Maybe... but it doesn't sound Korean to me either. Or he might be JONAS... Janitorial, Office, and Navigational Assistance Servomechanism. (BTW, I said Chinese, the place I actually associate the names Jonas referred to with is Singapore, not that I know very much about what people are actually called in either place.) - Gerry Quinn --- ### John Watkins *12 Jul 2010, 16:59 · in reply to Gerry Quinn* Isn't one of the names "Kim Lee Soong"? It's Korean. > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote: > From: "Ant?nio Pedro Marques" > > > Gerry Quinn wrote (12-07-2010 15:26): >>> It also fits with Jonas's description of names from his time which were >>> similat to modern-day Chinese names. >>> OFC 'Jonas' is not very Chinese. >> It may be a misheard korean name. > Maybe... but it doesn't sound Korean to me either. > > Or he might be JONAS... Janitorial, Office, and Navigational Assistance > Servomechanism. > > (BTW, I said Chinese, the place I actually associate the names Jonas > referred to with is Singapore, not that I know very much about what people > are actually called in either place.) > > - Gerry Quinn > > > _______________________________________________ --- ### António Pedro Marques *12 Jul 2010, 18:05 · in reply to Gerry Quinn* Gerry Quinn wrote (12-07-2010 17:56): > From: "Ant?nio Pedro Marques" >> Gerry Quinn wrote (12-07-2010 15:26): >>> It also fits with Jonas's description of names from his time which were >>> similat to modern-day Chinese names. >>> OFC 'Jonas' is not very Chinese. >> It may be a misheard korean name. > Maybe... but it doesn't sound Korean to me either. Well, I don't know korean, so... --- ### John Watkins *12 Jul 2010, 18:13 · in reply to António Pedro Marques* "Kim" is the most common family name in Korea. If one wanted to pick an iconic Korean name, it would be "Kim," with "Park" as the probable runner-up. It also means "gold," or rather is homonymous with the Korean word for "gold." Now, "Kim" is also a Chinese name, but the Chinese name is sometimes Anglicized "Jin." I'm not sure how many Korean names there are that have no Chinese equivalent or cognate. 2010/7/12 Ant?nio Pedro Marques > Gerry Quinn wrote (12-07-2010 17:56): > > From: "Ant?nio Pedro Marques" >> Gerry Quinn wrote (12-07-2010 15:26): >>>> It also fits with Jonas's description of names from his time which were >>>> similat to modern-day Chinese names. >>>> OFC 'Jonas' is not very Chinese. >>> It may be a misheard korean name. >> Maybe... but it doesn't sound Korean to me either. > Well, I don't know korean, so... > > _______________________________________________ ---