Re: Remote Relation: 索 and 貫

On Jul 27, 7:55 pm, al <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Photo 79, page 55, Illustrated Book of Mahjong Museum.

Explain your reasoning that lets you conclude it is evidence.

The bottom line is the game symbols are not monetary as commonly held.

How do you conclude that?

I have one more. 《博雅》穿也。《五經文字》旣穿曰貫。
《易·剝卦》貫魚。《釋文》貫，穿也。
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穿 is the key word. Pierce through is what it means.
For a 貫 to become a string of cash, you need to 穿.
In order to 穿, you need a hole to allow passage.
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Ok. Let's deal with these one at a time.

A string of cash is fabricated via many steps.
(1) Cash is given a round or square hole.

Given by whom?

(2) The sound "tong" is interpreted 'Tong Qian".

Who interpreted the "sound"?

(3) A rope, suo, is reduced in size to a string.

Really? According to my reference, Endymion Wilkinson, who said;
"In the earliest dictionary (Shuowen, 100 CE) it is defined as a rope
(or cord) made from vegetable fibre."

Curious. Now what is the meaning of "cord". In my dictionaries it
gives it as a thin rope or a thick string.

(4) A guan is changed from 1000 to 100 wen.

Wow"! Even after all the discusson regarding short stringing and the
idea that these units of currency had different values at different
times and places.

But suo was used to represent 1000 wen. It the card deck it was used
to represent 100 wen.

(5) A Taiji diagram changed to 1-Cash etc.

No it wasn't. Here you are again, spouting your assertion as if it were
proven true, without any reasoning behind it to show the reasons that
support the assertion.

If you are so confident, why not direct readers to the other subject
thread where your assertions have been peeled open for examination?

No wonder it was an incredible and impossible task!

Oh ho! The ol' argument from ignorance is back.

I am told I am ignorant again! When am I going to learn?

Never, at this rate! You have just proven my case out of your own
mouth!

You don't even realise that the word 'ignorance' in the 'argument from
ignorance', doesn't apply to you personally!!

Perhaps this will make it easier for you to understand. It can be
called the 'appeal to incredulity'.

No good?

How about 'appeal to ignorance'? Nope?

Aw, you found a way of ignoring, avoiding and diverting our attention
away from you answring my points above.

You and ithinc must be the most knowledgeable two whatever (can't
think of a word lust yet) on card-earth.

Thank you. But coming from you that doesn't mean much.

How come you are hopeless and helpless to see beyond MDH.

Because that is where the evidence leads. Sorry.

Maybe ithinc
is going to lead you out of your tangle. His dig and find from
graveyards of dead books may yield you Zero-Cash
someday. That will reaffirm your faith in Pan Zheheng.

Wow! You think so?

Now, you are avoiding answering my comments and questions above just a
teensy weensy bit, aren't you?

What's the matter?

Do you want to ignore them?

I don't mind, just let me know that you want to avoid them, ok?

That way I can then move on to your other unreasonable claims.
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