Comments on: Let's do Chinese together. http://trilema.com/2016/lets-do-chinese-together/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:55:14 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: I think it might be the case I'm becoming pretentious. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2016/lets-do-chinese-together/#comment-145244 I think it might be the case I'm becoming pretentious. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:55:12 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=66685#comment-145244 [...] Speaking of which, it occurs to me the whole "guy got tattoo in Chinese thinking it meant X but it really means Y" is such a trope in English because of the English speaker's wholly inappropriate naive extension of a rule of English (that strings have definite, specific meaning), a property Chinese does not actually share. [...] [...] Speaking of which, it occurs to me the whole "guy got tattoo in Chinese thinking it meant X but it really means Y" is such a trope in English because of the English speaker's wholly inappropriate naive extension of a rule of English (that strings have definite, specific meaning), a property Chinese does not actually share. [...]

]]> By: Resplenduminous on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2016/lets-do-chinese-together/#comment-143556 Resplenduminous on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 10:33:42 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=66685#comment-143556 [...] and immense investments abroad were exactly what the Party had been aiming for all along. The fundamentally meaningless language of the land made it easy, lending an unexpected strength to the theory of language being the exact [...] [...] and immense investments abroad were exactly what the Party had been aiming for all along. The fundamentally meaningless language of the land made it easy, lending an unexpected strength to the theory of language being the exact [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2016/lets-do-chinese-together/#comment-123133 Mircea Popescu Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:09:57 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=66685#comment-123133 trufs. trufs.

]]> By: lru http://trilema.com/2016/lets-do-chinese-together/#comment-123132 lru Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:06:12 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=66685#comment-123132 mircea_popescu: of course by now we don't know whether this isn't an impostor :) mircea_popescu: make a pgp wouldja. spandrell_: if somebody actually bothers to supplant me i'll feel very flattered mircea_popescu: i don't think you've experienced paranoia of quite this strength and vintage in all your born days. LOL mircea_popescu: of course by now we don't know whether this isn't an impostor :)
mircea_popescu: make a pgp wouldja.
spandrell_: if somebody actually bothers to supplant me i'll feel very flattered
mircea_popescu: i don't think you've experienced paranoia of quite this strength and vintage in all your born days.

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]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2016/lets-do-chinese-together/#comment-117478 Mircea Popescu Fri, 10 Jun 2016 04:45:37 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=66685#comment-117478 Tulai Mari tu stii chineza ?! Tulai Mari tu stii chineza ?!

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