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Analyzing crazy eights for seebs
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<blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 310256" data-attributes="member: 2070"><p>Okay, I think I see the issue.</p><p></p><p>If you're talking about the character that looks sort of like a / \, only with a bit of a line back from the top of the right-hand \, then yeah, that looks a fair bit like an eight. It has other meanings as well.</p><p></p><p>The character I was referring to is the one I've found in a number of dictionaries, when looking up chuan, which looks more like a 'ji'.</p><p></p><p>I'm willing to grant that the word 'chuan' is sometimes drawn such that, if we ignore etymology and just look at the shapes, it has something in it that looks a lot like an eight. It is not always drawn that way, and it is not clear to me that the character in question is intended to be an eight.</p><p></p><p>The reason I laugh at AiG is not *just* the 8. It's the ongoing sequence of incredibly stretched etymologies, such as interpreting a kou as (breath from God's) mouth, rather than just "probably mouth, maybe person, depending on context".</p><p></p><p>To summarize, in the dictionaries I normally use, chuan does not contain anything that anyone would call an eight. The font used by AiG and a few other sites is *different*.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seebs, post: 310256, member: 2070"] Okay, I think I see the issue. If you're talking about the character that looks sort of like a / \, only with a bit of a line back from the top of the right-hand \, then yeah, that looks a fair bit like an eight. It has other meanings as well. The character I was referring to is the one I've found in a number of dictionaries, when looking up chuan, which looks more like a 'ji'. I'm willing to grant that the word 'chuan' is sometimes drawn such that, if we ignore etymology and just look at the shapes, it has something in it that looks a lot like an eight. It is not always drawn that way, and it is not clear to me that the character in question is intended to be an eight. The reason I laugh at AiG is not *just* the 8. It's the ongoing sequence of incredibly stretched etymologies, such as interpreting a kou as (breath from God's) mouth, rather than just "probably mouth, maybe person, depending on context". To summarize, in the dictionaries I normally use, chuan does not contain anything that anyone would call an eight. The font used by AiG and a few other sites is *different*. [/QUOTE]
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