Fortunate Cloud The Urth list — 7 messages, 4 voices, 12 Jul 2010 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5659 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... > > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------