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Word: toh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2001-2001
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...tomato, I say toh-mah-toh, let's call the whole thing off..." Indeed, if China and the U.S. spoke the same language, the job of U.S. and Chinese diplomats negotiating the text of a letter from Washington that would allow them to end the Hainan standoff would have been a lot more difficult. And, of course, Beijing's monopoly of control over the Chinese media may have proved extremely useful in developing traction for a diplomatic solution in which one side needed to convince its public that it had received an apology, while the other side had to gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How a U.S. 'Apology' Was 'Found' in Translation | 4/12/2001 | See Source »

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