Andre:
Yes but...the Chinese have very strict grammatical rules for what are
allowable combinations. What I was getting at was that most chinese
characters are a combination of pictographs and ideographs. While most
characters are words by themselves they are usually composed of at least two
characters (a simple example: "pirate" is composed of 'sea' and 'thief',
"crisis" is composed of 'danger' and 'opportunity' but is usually understood
as 'dangerous time'.
It really gets very complex but knowing only a few thousand characters can
be used to understand many tens or even hundreds of thousands of words.
The system on mainland China only incorporates approx. 6500 characters!
They used to be written right to left, top to bottom but this changed due to
Western influences ( around the Opium War 1830's ?). So now they are read
left to right.
Again I must stress I am not an expert but I hope it clarifies your
question.
woods:
This helps. By the way, if Ron were here he would grab at this moment to
discuss
this topic. He hasn't been contributing for about 3 or 4 weeks now. He
improved our
understanding of how western grammar contributes to SOM. He also tried to
show how the grammar of eastern languages kept these cultures from
getting tangled up in SOM.
I think your right with how the west eroded Chinese values in the Opium
War. I know Bruce Lee,
a much later historical character, saw how the west had impacted Chinese values
and he was the first big push of Chinese values across into the west. Others
have followed, such as
Jet Li and many other events now, Tai Chi, etc... These events, Opium War,
were still in the days
when the west used the military to force other countries to open up to western
capitalism and trade.
About the characters. So you mean since a character, "pirate", can mean
"sea"
and "thief", how would they parse out "thief" or "sea", for example, if they
are writing or talking
about the sea (not a pirate, but simply the sea)?
By the way, I can definitely see how "crisis" is composed of "danger" and
"opportunity".
This goes in step with what I was talking about in the post about morals,
degeneration, values, and
generation. This is what I was saying about this current economic crisis. As
the degenerate values fall
apart the dynamic values are present, but the dynamic values are having
difficulty latching
due to the degenerate values are not allowing these dynamic values to latch.
These degenerate values
are still trying to hold on and they are pulling many patterns apart as they
immorally fail. In
this crisis is an opportunity. All these solutions, but how about application?
This is a cycle, seasons are cycles, but how cold will winter be this year
compared to last year.
woods
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