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

John Cowan wrote:
>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.
I know. I was committing an understatement. And I really ought to develop an
ASCII-safe sense of humour.

                                                Andreas

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