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Comments on: Return of the Presbyterian Church http://sbbs.johnband.org/2005/07/return-of-the-presbyterian-church/ As fair-minded and non-partisan as Torquemada. Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:16:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: max http://sbbs.johnband.org/2005/07/return-of-the-presbyterian-church/#comment-5529 Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:15:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=1225#comment-5529 Finally you post something worthwhile.

]]> By: Michael http://sbbs.johnband.org/2005/07/return-of-the-presbyterian-church/#comment-5527 Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:17:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=1225#comment-5527 A bit like my favourite Chinese subtitle – on the film Tiger on the Beat, someone cryptically says "My brother’s not easy to get on with: he’s tear and I have mucus".

I think this is something to do with the Chinese concept of the various bodily humours, but it really doesn’t work in English.

]]> By: jamie http://sbbs.johnband.org/2005/07/return-of-the-presbyterian-church/#comment-5526 Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:27:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=1225#comment-5526 This looks like a literal transliteration of the Chinese characters into the English words that most resemble their formal meaning without any attempt to translate idiomatically.

(I don’t speak or write Chinese, btw, but I’ve seen enough of this kind of thing to make a reasonable guess at what’s happening).

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