From toddswanson@uswestmail.net Mon May 14 11:33:48 2001 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f4EIXY093758 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 11:33:37 -0700 Received: from c000.sfo.cp.net (c004-h007.c004.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.71]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with SMTP id f4EIXXs10143 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 11:33:33 -0700 Received: (cpmta 16660 invoked from network); 14 May 2001 11:33:30 -0700 Date: 14 May 2001 11:33:30 -0700 Message-ID: <20010514183330.16659.cpmta@c000.sfo.cp.net> X-Sent: 14 May 2001 18:33:30 GMT Received: from [165.127.82.99] by mail.uswestmail.net with HTTP; 14 May 2001 11:33:30 PDT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 From: Cc: classics@u.washington.edu, classics@u.washington.edu X-Mailer: Web Mail 3.7.1.9 Subject: Re: Cantonese and Greek My only Cantonese is "hor wa mi jieu." "Give me a beer." Todd On Mon, 14 May 2001, "Catherine Mori" wrote: > > Does anyone on the list know Cantonese? > > I've just started Greek in my spare time with a few grade eights. Upon learning the word "oikos" for "house", one of the grade eleven kibbitzers remarked that the Cantonese word for "house" is "okay". > > Any comments on the apparent similarity of these words. > > C.Mori Signup for your free USWEST.mail Email account http://www.uswestmail.net .