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Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin

From:Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 22:23
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Patrick Dunn wrote: > >And no one guesses at the properties of an element in chemistry. Have > >you ever studied chemistry? > > Actually, you sometimes do. One of the nice things of the periodic table is > that it allows you to make very educated guesses about an element's > properties if you know the properties of neighbouring elements. >
Well, an educated guess and a bald guess are two different things. I think Su Xiansheng was suggesting that people who don't memroize the periodic table just stab in the dark at an element's properties. But then, he might not have been -- I sometimes have difficulty understanding him. :) Prurio modo viri qui in arbore pilosa est. ~~Elvis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~