Re: Your vote on a common global language
From: Lee Sau Dan (danlee_at_informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: 12/06/04
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Date: 07 Dec 2004 00:11:57 +0800
>>>>> "Miguel" == Miguel Cruz <mnc@admin.u.nu> writes:
Miguel> Now try it with "limp"
>> ªÏ (Big5). One character.
Miguel> Ah, when I look it up (simplified), I get three characters
Miguel> with about a million strokes each.
You're obviously lying. Firstly, there is no character with a million
strokes. Not even of the order of one hundred. Even in the most
comprehensive dictionaries, the most complicated character has only 64
strokes.
Moreover, you haven't look up the character that I gave above, which
means precisely "limp".
Miguel> or "stash".
>> What's that?
Miguel> A place where you put something, or the act of putting it
Miguel> there. Has connotations of furtiveness which are essential
Miguel> to the meaning.
Still to vague to understand.
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