Re: Please learn English better

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From: Lee Sau Dan ~{
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 00:00

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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Wright <darwin@scruznet.com> writes:

    Mike> The joke is that the Chinese character for "soup" is used by
    Mike> the Japanese to mean "hot water".

In ancient  Chinese, this character actually  meant  "hot water".  The
Japanese  must have borrowed  this    character at that time.    Later
developments  of Chinese has shifted the  meaning of this character to
"soup" (perhaps with  a transition period  where this character  meant
both "hot water" and "soup").


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Date: 1997/01/09
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