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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what's interesting is that the marriage you get from "female" and "family" is the female act of marrying, as in "jia嫁". When you do the manly act of marrying, you get "obtain/take" plus "woman" under it, which is "qu娶".

When interpreted in that fashion, the word for marriage itself can sound really rather interesting, hunyin 婚姻，both having the radical for female, as well as the radical for "cause/opportunity" and "darkness/confusion", which when put together, can roughly translates into, hahaha, marriage is the opportunity for emotional darkness and the cause of psychological confusion. Heh. I never actually looked at these words this way. Wow. This is fun.

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both having the radical for female, as well as the radical for "cause/opportunity" and "darkness/confusion", which when put together, can roughly translates into, hahaha, marriage is the opportunity for emotional darkness and the cause of psychological confusion. Heh. I never actually looked at these words this way. Wow. This is fun.

::grins and nods:: also fun is watching the permutation of what I mentally call 'action' symbols across the radicals themselves. For intance, most of the actions have what looks like a stylized 'x'. 'hand' is a lid on 'action', 'writing' is a lid on 'hand', 'net' is two actions stuck in a 'border', 'strike' is action plus 'legs'.

What makes this further interesting is that this makes (via forms only) 'woman' a truncation of action (the horizontal lid), where as 'man' is half an action (the lines never cross).

::grins::