Joss Whedon = Shan-yu = evil (?)

POSTED BY: heb
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 08:15
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HEB

Monday, May 10, 2004 5:49 PM

"You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are." - Joss Whedon

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I have come to the inevitable conclusion that Joss Whedon is evil.

Leave poor Mal alone! Hasn't he been through enough already?

LIZ

Monday, May 10, 2004 6:53 PM

i must admit i had noticed that connection too. the main difference of course is that Joss is talking about fictional characters and Shan Yu (or perhaps a better example is Niska) is talking about doing it to real people.

HEB

Monday, May 10, 2004 7:00 PM

Fictional?

What is this fiction of which you speak?

GREGGALLINSON

Monday, May 10, 2004 7:04 PM

It's SUN TZU.

Sorry, that's just one of my little nitpicks with Firefly fandom.

HEB

Monday, May 10, 2004 7:08 PM

I thought so!

The guy who wrote the Art of War right?

I wondered if that was who it was but I'd seen it spelt shan-yu elsewhere so asumed it was a different guy.

Sorry!

GREGGALLINSON

Monday, May 10, 2004 7:11 PM

Heb, it's no problem at all. I, too, have seen it spelled the other way all over the place. To be honest, perhaps it's an acceptable variant spelling I've never been exposed to...but considering every single reference I've ever seen to the man outside of FF fandom spells his name "Sun Tzu", I figure that's the correct spelling.

HEB

Monday, May 10, 2004 7:13 PM

No I'm sure you're right.

I just wasn't sure I had the right guy.

GREGGALLINSON

Monday, May 10, 2004 7:17 PM

That's the man!:)

HEB

Monday, May 10, 2004 7:20 PM

Thanks!

SIGMANUNKI

Monday, May 10, 2004 7:58 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by GreggAllinson:
Heb, it's no problem at all. I, too, have seen it spelled the other way all over the place. To be honest, perhaps it's an acceptable variant spelling I've never been exposed to...but considering every single reference I've ever seen to the man outside of FF fandom spells his name "Sun Tzu", I figure that's the correct spelling.

There is two different ways to write Chinese characters with English characters. One is pinyin and the other is... I can't remember the name. They are both correct.

The US was tired of waiting for the Chinese gov to decide which to use so they decided to adopt the other and then the Chinese government decided to use pinyin.

As such the other is seen more in the West and pinyin is seen more in the East. Of course people in the West are now tending to pinyin as it has become the standard of the Chinese gov.

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