Languages themselves are the viving vehicle of culture, Chinese writing system has about 8000 years old, it evaluated but preserved its essential, now days, through these caracters so pictographical, we still can appreciate the wisdom of our ancestors, brilliant but simple philosophy about human being and the universals, easily overshadowed by our ignorance and arrogance.

Chowboy, i dont want to call you a racist, a widely overused word now days, but your comments made you so pathetic. It shows how narrow minded you are.

By the way, the original Roman or Latin scripts are pictographical, just a few examples, words like eye ( in Spanish ojo), look, water, well, wave, if you are smart enough, you can see some trace there.

Norman from Venezuela

Thanks, as always, for taking time to read my post. It’s much appreciated. I enjoyed writing this one a lot, as well as the research (consuming dim sum!).

The two etymologies you asked about are from http://zhongwen.com. Specifically, for “path”
see http://zhongwen.com/d/184/d244.htm and for “defy” see http://zhongwen.com/d/185/d72.htm. As I said, my command of Chinese is below that of a sea slug, so I can’t state, authoritatively, that zhongwen.com is correct, but he seems to be well respected. All the best, to both you and Bee. I enjoy her drawings very much. –Hilton

We have only been to a chinese restaurant in South Tampa that serves Dim Sum on weekends. It’s the TC Choy’s Asian Bistro. And we like it.

I’m totally with you on the poetic elegance of the Chinese characters and phrases, it being my mother tongue notwithstanding. Thus, I’m able to recognize the Chinese characters in your blog except for the following two clues: “feet going separate ways=path” or, “move in opposition=defy.” Perhaps I have over-rated my level of Chinese but I would like to be enlightened. Thanks.