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'Ha-pi-tu-mi-te-yu:' Beijing welcomes the Olympics »

Posted by: Ousama 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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BEIJING - Faced with my blank look of incomprehension, the taxi driver took a deep breath and tried again."Ha-pi-tu-mi-te-yu," he intoned.Wow, I thought, six years out of Beijing and a long-haul flight from Europe have turned my once almost fluent Chinese to mush.Then, it hit me. This was English. "'Happy to meet you?'" I asked.