Re: Fun with the Origin of Chinese spoken languages

From: SJ (donot_at_send.spam.net)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:32:37 +0000 (UTC)

Jacques Guy <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in
news:417D9CC4.5BA3@alphalink.com.au:

>PaPaPeng wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:15:36 +0000 (UTC), SJ <donot@send.spam.net>
>> wrote:
>
>> >In my humble opinion, the author of this book could have got a
>> >better inspiration if he could have considered my main point:
>> >Chinese spoken languages were originated from the isolating written
>> >language called Hanja script. It's so pity that I am not any kind of
>> >linguist to publish in linguistics journals (I should be satisfied
>> >with this kind of news group where only terrapin's eggs are
>> >dominant).
>
>> Huh?? Can you rephrase the stuff posted in plain English? Three
>> sentences should do.
>
>He's just learnt the meaning of wang2ba dan4. "Terrapin" is
>a North American species of turtles (wang2ba)--the word is
>believed to have been borrowed from Algonquian (a native
>language spoken in Virginia and thereabouts).
>
>So let me translate his gibberish into three sentences.
>
>"The author of the book would have been better inspired
>if he'd agreed with me that spoken Chinese originated from
>written Chinese, called Hanja [yeah, right, wow!].
>Alas I don't get to be published in linguistic journals.
>So I have to be content with airing my seminal theories
>in this despicable newsgroup exclusively populated by
>arseholes (terrapin's eggs = wang2ba dan4)".
>
>So there. Three sentences, no more, no less, as you
>asked for. But note that the fellow (SJ) does not seem
>to know the other meaning of wang2ba.
>
>Oh, definitely, not knowing any Chinese does help
>building theories about it!

Dear Wang2ba dan4,

It is true that scientific revolutions usually are started by non-
specialists according to Thomas Kuhn. Do you know the reason? If not,
visit here http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/Kuhn.html and study hard.

By the way, could you set right your PC clock first before claiming you
are the original wang2ba dan4. Or, did you think that a turtle must set
the clock earlier to catch up easily? In this case, my ample apology.

SJ.

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