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A hundred year’s sleep

As I was writing thank you cards, I re-read one from my aunt where she wrote in Chinese:

tee: ‘bat leen ho cup’?
a: ‘bat leen ho hup
tee: what does that mean?
a: a hundred years of being together
tee: give me another sentence with the word ‘hup’ in it
a: um…
tee: ‘hup an fun’? (which means to sleep)
a: … yes. may you sleep for a hundred years.

100 done, another … 60 or so more to go. Oh boy.

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One Response to “A hundred year’s sleep”

  1. January 16th, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    Elaine says:

    Hahah Chinese is hard. I just learned the Chinese to Honeymoon (Do mut yuet) but I heard “Doung mut yuet”, so I thought they said “animal month”.

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