2014年12月2日星期二

Another Short History of Linguistics (91)

In the film of Red Cliff, a famous general 关羽,was using a special broadsword, its name was

青龙偃月刀, in this term, 青龙 means black dragon, 偃月 means a sleeping moon, means knife or sword. Put them together means ‘crescent like broadsword, with black dragon pattern’.  With Chinese pronunciation, these words or terms called be read easily but by any alphabetic language they are tediously long.
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