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<blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 302552" data-attributes="member: 2070"><p>Unfortunately, I no longer remember the URL, but I am suspicious that it would have been a link to my post about this in talk.origins (the Usenet group, not the web site). I'll include a URL for that.</p><p></p><p>I do not feel that I insulted them in that post; I wrote it at a time when I was ignorant of the fact that they used this argument, too, and simply attacked what I believe to be an exceptionally poor argument based on a very aggressive misunderstanding of Chinese. Literacy in Chinese does not equate to a feel for the etymology of the language; the mistakes made strike me as being on a level with thinking that "homosexual" means "has sex with men" because it's the same letters as "homo sapiens", not realizing that it's actually "same-sex", because the "homo" prefix is coming from Greek, not Latin.</p><p></p><p>I enclose my original article on this that I wrote for talk.origins. I *think* that's what I linked to when I sent my feedback to AiG, but I don't remember, and I don't have an unedited copy of my message available.</p><p></p><p>Here's the link:</p><p><a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=3cf07639%240%2479557%243c090ad1%40news.plethora.net&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DChinese%2Betymology%2Bgroup:talk.origins%2Bseebs%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D3cf07639%25240%252479557%25243c090ad1%2540news.plethora.net%26rnum%3D1" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=3cf07639$0$79557$3c090ad1@news.plethora.net&rnum=1&prev=/groups?q=Chinese+etymology+group:talk.origins+seebs&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=3cf07639%240%2479557%243c090ad1%40news.plethora.net&rnum=1</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seebs, post: 302552, member: 2070"] Unfortunately, I no longer remember the URL, but I am suspicious that it would have been a link to my post about this in talk.origins (the Usenet group, not the web site). I'll include a URL for that. I do not feel that I insulted them in that post; I wrote it at a time when I was ignorant of the fact that they used this argument, too, and simply attacked what I believe to be an exceptionally poor argument based on a very aggressive misunderstanding of Chinese. Literacy in Chinese does not equate to a feel for the etymology of the language; the mistakes made strike me as being on a level with thinking that "homosexual" means "has sex with men" because it's the same letters as "homo sapiens", not realizing that it's actually "same-sex", because the "homo" prefix is coming from Greek, not Latin. I enclose my original article on this that I wrote for talk.origins. I *think* that's what I linked to when I sent my feedback to AiG, but I don't remember, and I don't have an unedited copy of my message available. Here's the link: [url]http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=3cf07639%240%2479557%243c090ad1%40news.plethora.net&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DChinese%2Betymology%2Bgroup:talk.origins%2Bseebs%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D3cf07639%25240%252479557%25243c090ad1%2540news.plethora.net%26rnum%3D1[/url] [/QUOTE]
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