The word 'lan' is not correct or usable in written English.
It is not a recognized word in any English dictionary.
Ryan Ding, Huawei's head of product development, recalls that his firm stuck with its efforts to penetrate the markets for routers and LAN switches two important bits of telecoms gear despite losing money on each for more than a decade.
Pharmacies have been emptied of their stocks of a traditional flu medicine called ban lan gen, despite its dubious worth in dealing with H7N9.
Hackers have penetrated corporate networks by driving up to the parking lot, switching on a laptop, and logging on to the firm's wireless LAN.
Words borrowed from Turkish (lan, meaning dude) and Arabic (yalla!, or come on!) might also intrude.You will hear such language in Berlin and other big cities.
Novell has even developed a Windows NT version of its Novell Directory Services, a kind of comprehensive telephone book that controls how users access a LAN.
Kiezdeutsch is here to stay, lan.
This is the new minimalist language, call it min-lan, invented by Houston's space people and now used wherever simple messages need to be put over quickly.
Motorway signs, advertisements, even television soaps, all use min-lan.
But understandably enough, Peruvians were not amused when LAN-Peru, the country's biggest airline, recently aired an in-flight video made in 1997 promoting "adventure tourism".
Needham – in complete contrast to Fung Yu-lan – represents the Daoists as both naturalistic and interested in natural phenomena.
According to Fung Yu-lan, Sima Qian had "confused" the legendary Lao Dan with Li Er, who flourished later during the "Warring States" period (480 221 B.C.E).
