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Review Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
alt.ascii-art
· 1 message · 26 Mar 2002
--(Once apon a time, in rec.arts.books,)-- --(Lewis Mammel said it like only they can.)-- > > > Don Tuite wrote: > >> Curious juxtaposition. The "Yu" in "Yuki" isn't related to the Yu >> that means "hot water"? > > Presumably not. ( In class, the answer was always "no" to this > type of question. ) Japanese has so many "puns" that you learn > to ignore them. Yuki has its own kanji, which is the "rain" kanji > ( "ame" = ah-may ) combined with the "pigs-head" radical ( which > is not a character itself, just a component. ) > > The "yu" kanji followed by the infamous "chi" ( spirit ) character > ( ki in Japanese ) means steam, and is pronounced "yuge", so that one > is of course semantically related. > >> Don This is crossposted to alt.ascii-art as well. Each of these was done in the smallest form that ascii and comfort would allow. I only studied japanese for about 3 months but found that I could spell better in it than I could in english. =) the chi he did not mention (blood) KJ J HHHHHHHHHH H H H H H H H H H H H H HHHHHHHHHHHHHH Why did I put that in? Because Japanese is a very difficult language to speek. Anyone with sufficiant ability to abstract symbols can pick up the written (kanji , haragana, and katakan) pritty easily. But speeking and hereing it is not easy at all. Lots of words sound exatly the same but have very differant meanings The chi (ki) he did mention Why is it infamous. Find the smallest japanies dictionary you can. No smaller than that. Each word in it will probably have a one word explanation like above where chi = blood Well ki will probably have more space dedicated to it than any other. Its not an easy one to master. /---` /-----` ------| '\"/ | / \ \, Yuki, snow Setsu HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHH HHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH HHHH HHH HHH HHH HHHH HHH HHH HH HHH HHHH HHH H HHHH HHH HHHH HHH HHH HHHH HHH HHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH _ yu - hot water , To HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HH HH HH HH HHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH HHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH HHH HHH HHH HH HHH HHH HHH HH HHH HHH HHH H HH HHH HHH H HHH HHHH HHH HHH HH HHH HH HHH HHHHH HH HHH -- +-(faux@fugozi)-(0.03|0.09|0.18)-(22:55|Mon Mar 25)-+ cat ~/.{sig,uin} It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. - Andrew Jackson UIN=66618055
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