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Feb 3, 2011, 5:23 am

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Originally Posted by benzemalyonnais

lol NJ too.....the best thing about these are that chinese speakers understand them as well as we do! Except when i throw in TW....they get a little confused by that one

For us northerners...SZ is suzhou sometimes lol

I think the common usage of shortening long names into two characters is carrying over to two letters in the Western alphabets, OK?

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