Re: Your vote on a common global language

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:06:49 GMT

Miguel Cruz wrote:
>
> 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.

If you're trying to get him to consider a specific character for a word
that can be translated 'stash', why not simply give him the Chinese word
you have in mind? 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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