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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[nightfallrising.livejournal.com]

'Cause of the biting.
(radicalsquee)

[wildelamassu.livejournal.com]

*metaglomp*

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

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.

[raeofspades.livejournal.com]

I like how, if you combine the word for "female" and "family", you get "marriage". It kind of makes me want to write Gonou/Kanan.

And monkey is made with the side-word-thing that indicates an animal combined with the word for nobleman.

Mmm... Chinese.

[elvaron.livejournal.com]

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

^_^;;;;;

I never notice these days. Wait, I can't even remember how to write defiance... (are you using simplified chinese or traditional?)

[suffire.livejournal.com]

wait, really?
I always thought the radicals to "eat" 吃 is a combintation of "mouth"口 and "beg"乞.
another word for "eat", 食，which when taken apart, can go as "person good".

which word for "eat" are you talking about? I'm really curious.