Firefly fix by ffying2

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Firefly fix

POSTED BY: FFYING2
UPDATED: Friday, March 7, 2003 23:09
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Friday, March 7, 2003 3:33 PM

Howdy all. I'm another Official Board person, but also an occasional lurker here. Like everyone I'm missing our show, so I thought I'd finally play around with my website again after a couple-month hiatus.

On FIREFLY FUNSITE I now have a dozen filk songs and three crossword puzzles. Come on by.

ffying2
Firefly Funsite
http://members.aol.com/fireflyfunsite

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Friday, March 7, 2003 3:42 PM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

So what do those Chinese characters on your site say?

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Friday, March 7, 2003 11:09 PM

FFYING2

Thanks for asking. I've added pinyin transliterations of the Chinese to the GIF images. Before I just had them in the ALT tags, so I was Netscape-unfriendly.

I'm not sure if there's some subtle meaning to the "Welcome." Literally, it's "welcome" (huan1ying2) plus "arriving" (lai2dao4). I saw it on a lot of Chinese sites when I was hunting for translations.

The "Filk Songs" is "parody lyrics" (da3you2shi1), which also came up a lot on Google searches of Chinese-language sites. There's nothing special about the "crossword puzzle" (zong1heng2zi4mi2, literally "vertical-horizontal character puzzle") or "links" (lian2jie2ou1).

The "fun" of "Funsite" is "entertainment" (yu2le4, also sometimes used for "recreation"). Maybe there's something better.

The "Firefly" (ying2) is the root and combining form of "firefly" (ying2huo3chong2, literally and redundantly "firefly" + "fire" + "bug/worm"). My alias, FFYING2, is FF-class and "firefly."

"Site" (zhan4) is from "website" (wang3zhan4); it seems to be used in Chinese the same as in English.

I've studied a little ABOUT Chinese, but never tried to learn it--until "Firefly."

But I studied Japanese a lot and lived there for a few years, so that helped me look things up.

If any experts see any Chinese on my site that doesn't make sense, please let me know.

ffying2
Firefly Funsite
http://members.aol.com/fireflyfunsite

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