brian.shapiro said:Bing is a Chinese term for flatbread http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(Chinese_flatbread)"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(Chinese_flatbread) Is the intonation different?
"bing" (bịnh) in Vietnamese also means sickness...
But, like Paolo said, we can apply 6 tones (neutral, rising, falling, extended-falling, questioning, extended-questioning) to any sound, and "bing" actually have more than 6 meanings in VN if you applied each of the tones...
You're gonna offend somebody anyway, it's the content that counts.
Although, the "nova" was true to its name, wasn't it 
