Just to bend the story a bit, it was a later version of Captain ego that had that confrontation, the piker from the vinyard in France.
And I think they were making a allegory about Chinese.
Where the symbol pictures of the old language fit together as puzzles meanings come from a whole mythology and folk stories and the interrelationship of the old gods, heros and villians.
My friends that taught in Taipei for 7 yrs said that when trying to talk to strangers chinese often stop talking and start writing in an attempt to establish common vocabulary.
Just to bend the story a
Just to bend the story a bit, it was a later version of Captain ego that had that confrontation, the piker from the vinyard in France.
And I think they were making a allegory about Chinese.
Where the symbol pictures of the old language fit together as puzzles meanings come from a whole mythology and folk stories and the interrelationship of the old gods, heros and villians.
My friends that taught in Taipei for 7 yrs said that when trying to talk to strangers chinese often stop talking and start writing in an attempt to establish common vocabulary.
oops clock says gotta go. . .
bye.
Gene Olson
Sculptor
Elk River, MN