of greetings, and food.

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sometime a couple of days ago I remember finding out that the traditional Tazanian response to the greeting, "How are you?", is, "Strong."

In some parts of China, some parts of Beijing, one of the morning greetings is, "Have you eaten?"

I am practicing the chinese radicals, and I can't help but notice that "eat" is a permutation of "defiance".

huh.

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In One Piece the subtitles always translate it that Zoro wants to be the strongest swordsman in the world, as opposed to the best. I figured it was some kind of cultural idiom.

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::nods:: might be. I know that in chinese a form of 'best' is directly translated as 'most good', 'strong' has slightly different connotations