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To: muawiyah

It’s hard to imagine that in 1961 registrars were allowed to use chops on a state document.


516 posted on 04/30/2011 12:31:56 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah

We are talking about Hawaii. But the guy fooled you into seeing his script as consisting of latin letters EVEN when several parts of it are clearly NOT letters at all! BTW, famous Chinese Americans in/from Hawaii are: http://www.yellowbridge.com/people/firsts.php Hiram Fong was one of the Senators at the time Obama was being born.


526 posted on 04/30/2011 12:45:46 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: little jeremiah
BTW, it is still a common practice with State Department for persons with facility in any sort of Chinese character system to ADD A CHOP ~ usually within brackets. That allows more certain differentiation between Chinese individuals.
532 posted on 04/30/2011 12:49:59 PM PDT by muawiyah
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