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Sunday, February 13th, 2005 05:18 pm
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.
Friday, February 18th, 2005 08:42 pm (UTC)
Yay! Mystery solved. Now I just have to figure out which "defiance" you're referring to, we are really not that much of a defiant nation. The extent of our endurance and perseverance, on the other hand, is *amazing*, we meekly let ourselves be oppressed to death, while breeding lots of kids to make up for the population. So many times through history had half our population been wiped away, and not because of some godforsaken disease, but because of war, and poverty. It's really depressing.
Friday, February 18th, 2005 10:50 pm (UTC)
but doesn't it mean "good"? I used to get that word for my gradings. You said permutation, I've been trying to search for a word that look like Liang and yet contain the defiant meaning.