what's in a word?

[Momò Nin]

"Terrorism" is a western word for chinese people; at times, it's a total
foreign concept for us.

i.e. Obama had named taiwan as one of anti isis countries(oh thank you...),
since then taiwanese began to feel worried.

Right now "terrorism" is more related to paranoia for the chinese people
live in asia. It's simply because they learned everything from the
news(very luckily!)

But this is only my opinion. I thought people would defined "Terrorism"
differenly in asia in this moment.
(chinese is my mother tongue)





On 6 December 2015 at 07:17, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

>
> > On Dec 5, 2015, at 8:36 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > English is not Chineese. Context doesn't overrule everything, unless we
> let it.
> >
>
> Context in English allows clear communication and is essential to it. Many
> words function as verbs, adjectives or nouns depending on context. Many
> general words require adjectives to achieve the needed specificity  for the
> intended meaning.
>
> Do you speak and read Chinese?
>
>
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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