Re: Anyone here literate in Chinese?

Daniel R. Reitman <dreitman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 8 Aug 2006 13:32:54 -0700, "Gary Thompson" <quuxa23@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'll just go ahead and check with my old Chinese history professor once
school goes back into session. Thanks for the effort from everyone,
though.

Actually, I think I just found an actual possibility. I was looking
at a map of Shanghai and noticed that the major road along the coast
is divided into Zhongshan Dong 1 Road and Zhongshan Dong 2 Road.
"One," as noted upthread, is a horizontal line. "Two" is two
horizontal lines, the upper line slightly shorter.

The same thing I noted re "one" and "ten" would apply here: the line in
question is not really a short one. It seemed to me that the original
question was calling for a very short stroke like <thinks> the top one
in the character for "six", for a simple example.

In addition, I think Chinese place names, especially road names, are
like Korean ones: numbers come up all over the place, and people would
be used to paying attention to them. It would be really hard for a fly
to squash in the right way to make a long stroke like the difference
between 1 and 2 (or 1 and 10, or 2 and 3) in just the right place, with
just the right thickness, length, colour, and angle, so that someone
used to reading these characters really couldn't tell the difference. I
think a speck could much more easily be taken for a short stroke.

Oh, and I haven't even taken into account the difference between printed
characters and hand-written ones; Gary, when you talk to your professor
you'd better mention which is being used.

Zeborah
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