Re: Your vote on a common global language

From: Miguel Cruz (mnc_at_admin.u.nu)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:57:10 -0600

Lee Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>>>>>> "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.

Yes, I obviously am. Is this a cultural disconnect, or are you trying to be
funny?

> 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.

Okay.

> Moreover, you haven't look up the character that I gave above, which
> means precisely "limp".

It didn't render in my newsreader (I get an asterisk followed by a capital
O), so I couldn't without doing more trancscoding work than the project
seemed to merit.

> 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.

>From dictionary.com:

v. To hide or store away in a secret place.
n. A secret place where something is hidden or stored.

miguel 

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