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Old 20-August-2008, 06:52 AM
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Originally Posted by KaiYeves View Post
I expect H2G2 doesn't sell very well in China, because in Mandarin, "42" sounds like the words "want to die".
It does? I'm a native Mandarin speaker, and "42" doesn't sound like any of the ways I know of to say "want to die".
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