http://www.ispydani.com/2008/09/30/brani-international-icon/ Dani vs. The World Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:03:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.ispydani.com/2008/09/30/brani-international-icon/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Dale Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:28:41 +0000 http://www.ispydani.com/?p=138#comment-37 Hey! I stumbled across a news article about Britney in Chinese and realized why your student wanted to say "Brani"; her Chinese name is ??? or "Bu-lan-ni". Put "bu-lan" together and you roughly get "blan": account for the poor use of the retroflex 'r' in many Chinese speakers' English and "Blani" becomes the conceptual equivalent of "Brani"! :) Hey! I stumbled across a news article about Britney in Chinese and realized why your student wanted to say “Brani”; her Chinese name is ??? or “Bu-lan-ni”. Put “bu-lan” together and you roughly get “blan”: account for the poor use of the retroflex ‘r’ in many Chinese speakers’ English and “Blani” becomes the conceptual equivalent of “Brani”!

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