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Re: OT: School systems (was: Re: Introduction)

From:Joe Fatula <fatula3@...>
Date:Monday, April 14, 2003, 19:30
From: "Adam Walker" <carrajena@...>
Subject: Re: OT: School systems (was: Re: Introduction)


> guozhong (lit. national middle)
Let me see if I've got this correctly: guozhong means middle school, literally "national middle". Then would that be something like a box for the first character with three horizontal lines connected by a vertical, then for the second character, a box with a vertical line through it? Because if this is what I'm thinking, root & modifier order really matters here. Zhongguo, the same two words in reverse order, indicates "middle nation", which _of course_ would mean China. Is "guozhong" short for something, like "guozhong xuenar" or some more plausible phrase than that?

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