Re: CHAT: aged foods (wasRe: phonology of borrowed words)

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> In context, he's probably rather thinking of the _word_ "hamburger" than of
> the _concept_ (the context being manipulating signs without understanding
> the language the signs encode). Then, hanzi=word isn't entirely true either.
Hanzi represent neither words nor concepts, but rather morphosyllables.
Sometimes a multisyllabic word is a single morpheme (old Buddhist loans,
modern English or Russian ones, a few native oddities), but even so it
will have as many hanzi as syllables.

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