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From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz (Ross Clark)
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by: Ross Clark - Thu, 4 Jan 2024 20:04 UTC

He was a poet who wrote under the pen name "Yesi". Born Guangdong 1949,
lived most of his life in Hong Kong.

He is "a perfect illustration of the intimate way language and culture
interact", says Crystal. He quotes a poem called "Yellow Rice", and an
interview comment about "Comprador Soup".

Wikipedia has this about his pen name:

Yesi" is a combination of two meaningless words, both interjections, in
Chinese. According to Yesi, people usually adopt a pen name that
contains meanings, which would give the readers a fixed feeling or
impression towards their works before they read them. Yesi wanted to
break out of this, hence, he used the combination of two meaningless
words, which usually appear in classical Chinese literary works, as his
pen name.[citation needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leung_Ping-kwan

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by: HenHanna - Wed, 20 Mar 2024 04:39 UTC

Ross Clark wrote:

> He was a poet who wrote under the pen name "Yesi". Born Guangdong 1949,
> lived most of his life in Hong Kong.

> He is "a perfect illustration of the intimate way language and culture
> interact", says Crystal. He quotes a poem called "Yellow Rice", and an
> interview comment about "Comprador Soup".

> Wikipedia has this about his pen name:

> Yesi" is a combination of two meaningless words, both interjections, in
> Chinese. According to Yesi, people usually adopt a pen name that
> contains meanings, which would give the readers a fixed feeling or
> impression towards their works before they read them. Yesi wanted to
> break out of this, hence, he used the combination of two meaningless
> words, which usually appear in classical Chinese literary works, as his
> pen name.[citation needed]

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leung_Ping-kwan

it didn't work... (in English) because Yesi looks just like Yes, Yeti

Did he write in Chinese? Mandarin ?

are you using an Almanac? which one?

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by: HenHanna - Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:56 UTC

> are you using an Almanac? which one?

i got it...

https://www.novabbs.com/tech/article-flat.php?id=17818&group=sci.lang#17818

David Crystal has a new book, A Date with Language (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2023).
There's one page per day, mentioning an event on that day which has some relevance to language.

--------------- Does he typically have , like, 3 topics on each page?

Subject	Author
Leung Ping-kwan died (5-1-2013)	Ross Clark
Re: Leung Ping-kwan died (5-1-2013)	HenHanna
Re: Leung Ping-kwan died (5-1-2013)	HenHanna