Re: Attn Aman Reinhold

From: SJ (donot_at_send.spam.net)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:02:57 +0000 (UTC)

"Harlan Messinger" <h.messinger@comcast.net> wrote in
news:2uf3lmF298ppeU1@uni-berlin.de:

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>"Paul J Kriha" <paul.nospam.kriha@paradise.net.nz> wrote in message
>news:4xmgd.23924$mZ2.886019@news02.tsnz.net...
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>> SJ <donot@send.spam.net> wrote in message
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>> > hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) wrote in news:clrfdp
>> > $444k@odds.stat.purdue.edu:
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>> > >What is a "basic word"? How can you be sure of that?
>> >
>> > My listed 10 words are basic words. If you disagree, try to falsify
>> > my assumption.
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>> But what is and what isn't a "basic word"?
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>Apparently, to SJ, a "basic word" is a word that embodies a concept
>such that if *your* language doesn't also express it in a single word,
>your enemies will destroy you. For example, in English, if you have the
>word "today", you're safe; a couple hundred years ago, when it was
>"to-day", or a thousand years ago, when it was "to daeg", the English
>must have been wiped out because they didn't have a single word for the
>concept.
>

As other guys here replied to this message, I reply. Else, I will not
reply to your messages any longer.

It is true that some basic words consist of more than two words. And
some one-word words could have perished. One-word words could be
two-word words, and vice versa. But, there are too many in the case of
Chinese.

Another important point, which you do not fully grasp, is the difference
between 'today' in witten English and other written languages and that
in Chinese written languages.

The assumption is that the written word for 'today' could have changed,
and even Korean term of today has changed. The exception is Chinese. The
written words called Chinese characters did not change at all (of
course, there has been some additions or slight modification in the
form). For example, the character denoting 'the present' have existed
during the past 3,500 years, without any change. I am sure this is
impossible in other written languages.

If the assumption that Chinese characters (Hanja) came from ancient
Chinese spoken languages, then most basic words such as baby, boy, ***
and vulva should be included in those charactaers and therafter no
change. One of Chinese guy here found the forgotten charactes for penis
and vulvara. Then, he sill can not find that for 'baby' and 'boy' and
others I listed adlib.

You still have no idea on the unique features of Hanja. Excellent
perservation and no change is a most distinctive feature of Hanja, i.e.,
Chinese characters and Chinese written langauge. Once coined into a
charactaer, virtually no temporal change.

Comparison with English written words is simply silly.

SJ

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