Gueuze

[anders]

The wav links didn't work for me, and I'm too lazy, it's too late and I downed too much wine to find out why. Anyway, li Wallon is a language I don't expect to understand, from what I've seen of it. People who think it's French must be crazy.

[M. Henri Day]

Demo baka ha shinanakya naoranai


only death can cure a fool.

趙高勢傾人主，老臣皆被黜。嘗遇朝會，乃使人獻鹿于帝，高指曰：“此馬也。”二世笑曰：“丞相誤矣，此鹿也。”群臣皆微笑而不敢揚聲。蓋高有篡奪之意，故指鹿為馬，以驗群情之順逆。 。。。

Henri

[Flaminius]

Finally, Chinese I understand completely.

[M. Henri Day]

As the old saw would have it,

活到老，學到老

Henri

[Drunkenemperor]

baka

Baka is a derogatory term in japanese. When I was a wee lass,
I lived in Yokohama and Tenri, Japan, attended 1st and 2nd grade at a catholic institution, where my parents taught English to the Japanese students. I was derided by the local
denizens as gaijin or foreigner and 'baka'



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baka_%28Japanese_insult%29

[M. Henri Day]

...

Baka is a derogatory term in japanese. ...

The Drunkenemperor (empress ?) is well informed - the epithet «馬鹿» in Japan is hardly meant as a compliment and the number of sayings employing the term is, alas, not small, so even in that charming country it is not universally the case that people treat each other with respect. But, as we all know,

馬鹿に着ける薬は無い

Still, some years ago the Finns made a man named Aho their Prime Minister, and we have recently had other examples which show that high intelligence is not a prerequisite for high office. So maybe the drug companies should be looking for something with which to treat the rest of us instead....

Henri

[Brazilian dude]

Aho reminds me of garlic.

Brazilian dude

[Flaminius]

人在江湖、身不由己。

Every respectable name in one language falls prey to derision by another language.