I think dropping 'world without end' is a logical move because you may understand: Part1: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. Part2: As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, the World is without end. Amen. Just a prayer + a cosmological credo. What is worse, t...

Katy YOU DIDN'T THINK i WAS TELLING A DIRTY JOKE. WERE YOU? I didn't think. And I didn't mean to tell something like that in the answer. It's an old problem. If your puns are too complicated, there's a danger to seem obscene or in any case to be misunderstood. Your English is very specific. I though...

Katy wrote:

If he was trying to make points it was a ham

Me?? Making points?? Never. It was the points of a poor little horse, that's all.

Flam wrote:

Is this politics or erotics?

It's old Flam trying to be erotic!


The traditional version of the compound: 爾馬火腿

Regards

Translating a Chinese sentence I have faced an insurmountable obstacle of four characters (they are stressed). Who is luckier than me? The rough content: At a TV debate the famous Swiss politician takes something --a handkerchief ???(so / horse / ham) out of his pocket and says 在一轮围绕这一主题的电视讨论会上，右翼人士...

Long ago, before IMEs, I somehow managed to create a list of all the MS Song glyphs in MS Word format. Maybe it would be a very useful software but of course it must be equipped with a radical search facility like one in dictionaries. I installed NJStar Chinese WP and it's a handy tool but how to c...

Thank you, Anders, for your detailed explanation. Mojikyo is a remarkable programme but, alas! its system requirements (Pentium II) exceed possibilities of my comp. And I doubt that it's possible to convert its glyphs into fonts like PMingLiu (and this is a condition to the project partakers). As to...

I have confronted a problem. Typing a page of a Chinese dictionary in a Microsoft Word file, I've discovered that some Chinese characters are difficult to find and to transfer via the clipboard. Example: bò , which creates a word of Middle-Chinese bòhuà = to administer. To make this glyph you must t...

If not your sharp eye, M Henri Day, this mystery would remain a mystery.

M Henri Day: Splendid ! Please tell us about it - in general terms, of course, to protect identities.... it's a very comic story. I didn't find the word 沦文 (thesis, paper) in my Linguo off-line computer dictionary (a very handy but too laconic one). I found separate characters:沦 - lùn - 'perish' and...

Yes

Anders said:

Yuri, that Ch/Ru site you used is interesting. Please tell me its address!

Here's URL of the dictionary:
http://www.chinese-russian.com/

Why the Чёрт do they count 0 in Число черт: 0?

Just an error -- БЕС ПОПУТАЛ!

Regards.

Flam:
[quote]Yuri, your simplified kanji for produce can be taken as the simplification of several other kajis. Does your Russian quote refer to that? [/quote]

I think that the traditional Hanzi exists in two slightly differing graphical versions 産 & 產

Regards

Thank you, M Henri Day! Your mention of a paper sent to the Technical Committee was like a thunderbolt from the skies. One more mystery I'm going to solve. On a Chinese course. There'll be soon an interactive Modern Chinese course at a web forum http://www.yazyk.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=86 If someb...

Flam: This seems to me a ritualistic end code of Chinese letters It's very probable. A very clever trick: I never saw anything like that in other languages. 产 is a simplified Hanzi. S. a citation from an on-line dictionary: 产 Ключ:亠 Номер ключа: 8 Количество добавленных черт: 4 Число черт: 0 Пекинск...

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