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Analyzing crazy eights for seebs
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<blockquote data-quote="npetreley" data-source="post: 311458" data-attributes="member: 2651"><p>I honestly still don't understand your point in that post. You kept comparing eight ("ba") to the unicode character 51E0, which is many ("ji"), not eight. So of course they didn't match. They aren't the same character. In other words, why should I be surprised that the character you placed in your text (51E0) is not the same as the character you'd need for eight (516B)? (I'd put those chars here if I knew how to do it with vbCode, but I don't.) </p><p></p><p>If you're referring to the fact that 8 can also mean "many" in Japanese, then once again I don't see your point. Aside from the fact that Japanese is not Chinese, that's a change that occurred long after the word "boat" was created in Chinese from the combination of vessel+eight+mouth. The oracle bone script makes it extremely obvious that the original glyph was "eight" and not some other glyph.</p><p></p><p>If you had some other point there that I missed, well, perhaps you can clear that up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="npetreley, post: 311458, member: 2651"] I honestly still don't understand your point in that post. You kept comparing eight ("ba") to the unicode character 51E0, which is many ("ji"), not eight. So of course they didn't match. They aren't the same character. In other words, why should I be surprised that the character you placed in your text (51E0) is not the same as the character you'd need for eight (516B)? (I'd put those chars here if I knew how to do it with vbCode, but I don't.) If you're referring to the fact that 8 can also mean "many" in Japanese, then once again I don't see your point. Aside from the fact that Japanese is not Chinese, that's a change that occurred long after the word "boat" was created in Chinese from the combination of vessel+eight+mouth. The oracle bone script makes it extremely obvious that the original glyph was "eight" and not some other glyph. If you had some other point there that I missed, well, perhaps you can clear that up. [/QUOTE]
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