From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24314 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: Chinese Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:56:45 +0100 Message-ID: <439EA8ED.5060308@wxs.nl> References: <20051212173143.94765127FA@ronja.ntg.nl> <439E8152.7020100@capdm.com> <439E99D2.3000804@wxs.nl> <2F12B179-DEAF-4942-B4C2-D53B1BB343D6@zonnet.nl> <439EA69E.9070206@gmx.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134471453 24790 80.91.229.2 (13 Dec 2005 10:57:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:57:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Dec 13 11:57:32 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Em7q1-00038o-Ip for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:56:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 282AB1282F; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:56:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02194-06-6; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:56:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D6712829; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:56:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F4CE12829 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:56:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02194-06-5 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:56:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from controller-1 (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C03E127FE for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:56:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 7493 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:03:17 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <439EA69E.9070206@gmx.de> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24314 Archived-At: Tobias Burnus wrote: > (Hmm, I never though I would end up such deep in linguistics duing my > PhD theses in physics. But having three Chinese in the group and doing > regularily some measurements at a research centre in Taiwan - I > couldn't help picking up something.) well, there is a certain charm in those characters, even if you cannot read them (during a 2*10 hour trip in a chinese bus during the last tug conference one quickly learns to recognize the symbols for gas stations and such -) browsing a chinese-english dictionary is also fun (i have a small one on my desk; some day i should start collecting dictionaries of all languages that context supports -); with a bit of puzzling one can find out the system behind the way words are made up Hans