Re: [REQUEST] Ying Yang
From Veronica Karlsson <e93...@sm.luth.se.nospam>
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· 6 May 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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Vadim Vygonets wrote: > > joris bellenger (svz...@xs4all.nl) wrote: > > Samurai Dragon wrote: > > > > > > Dan Larkin wrote: > > > > Just curious.... > > > > Isn't it "yinyang"? > > > > > > I think this has been mentioned before, but yes, you're right. > > > > > > Yin - positive aspect, light (associated with the male gender, rightly > > > or not) > > > Yang - negative aspect, darkness (ditto female) > > > > > > Samurai Dragon > > > -==UDIC==- > > Ok, Yin is not positive, nor Yang is negative. Its just white / > black, light / dark, active / passive, male / female. The male / > female association is because of the activeness / passiveness, not > something like positive / negative or good / bad. > > > How about ping-pong ? > > Everybody knows that ping is active and pong is passive, right? > Hmmm... lets see what the majority thinks... but I *don't* mean by "voting" here at alt.ascii-art or by bombing my mail box! I mean, lets see how many answers Alta Vista gives on some possible spellings: yin yan 71 yin yang 5000 ying yan 53 ying yang 800 yin and yan 18 yin and yang 500 ying and yan 1 ying and yang 100 yinyan 272 yinyang 6549 yingyan 12 yingyang 1305 Well, it looks as if a clear winner is "yin" combined with "yang", followed by "ying" combined with "yang". This is not an absolute result, only a measurement of how the people on the web seem to consider these words should be spelled. -- :) Veronica Karlsson ( e93...@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ ) ( llizard's animation site: http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/docs/ )
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,8af73773fcb9c492 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson <e93...@sm.luth.se.nospam> Subject: Re: [REQUEST] Ying Yang Date: 1997/05/06 Message-ID: <336...@sm.luth.se.nospam>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 239759064 References: <199...@ladder01.news.aol.com> <AF8816C2-46AB75@38.12.215.102> <E9G...@fsa.bris.ac.uk> <5kb3mk$12aq$1...@magma.Mines.EDU> <336...@cam.ac.uk> <336...@xs4all.nl> <5kmoho$qd...@news.huji.ac.il> Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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