There are also terms like the West or Western (world, languages,
civilization, etc) which have referents that are not completely west of
the Greenwich Meridian, whose usage cannot be simply explained or
justified by it.
Every point can be found west (or east) of the Greenwhich Meridian. Not all
oh, and BTW, Jon, what ~10 are you thinking of? I can't think of any ...
Characters like 'above', 'below', 'center' ... depends on what you are
willing to accept as 'an idea' and when you start calling it a 'snapshot of
an action' like the words for 'music/medicine', 'learn' etc.
Apart from
Jon,
Most Kanji have Kun readings. The fact that they also have On readings as
well is not material. Calling Kanji ideographic is referring to their Kun
properties.
I find that most foreigners who know nothing about Japanese are completely
unaware of On readings and how Kanji are also used as
One more thought on this topic: the issue has to do with comparing the
results of sorting two data sources. It would seem to me that there's
another issue that has to be taken into consideration here: normalisation.
You can't just do a simple sort using raw binary comparison; you have to
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