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    1. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 28 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite @SpaceKujira

      Notable also is how medieval church records would often Latin-ised everyone's names to Henricus or whatever but their daily use name is likely a dialectal diminutive of it

      3 replies 1 retweet 22 likes
    2. Amelia Bloody Rose‏ @AmeliaRoseWrite 28 Nov 2020
      Replying to @jeannette_ng @arthur_affect @SpaceKujira

      True. And the hegemony that came from first the Roman Empire and later the Catholic church meant that Latin was the prestige language in Europe, so that was political, too

      1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
    3. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 28 Nov 2020
      Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite @arthur_affect @SpaceKujira

      My understanding of how classical written Chinese is used historically is very coloured by me being a medievalist, I confess. I often end up likening it to the relationship the various European cultures had to Latin.

      1 reply 0 retweets 17 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Nov 2020
      Replying to @jeannette_ng @AmeliaRoseWrite @SpaceKujira

      There's a lot of similarities, yeah Including how "classical Chinese" as we know it is a "high language" that for much of its history was used by scholars to communicate in writing, that they translated their actual daily vernacular into

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @jeannette_ng and

      So a lot of the stuff that makes a book like the Dao De Jing so gnomic is just the result of it being highly compressed into shorthand by scribes etc

      1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
    6. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 28 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite @SpaceKujira

      It is also sometimes very not gnomic because those characters being still in use can have very blunt and mundane meanings. Like, some old texts can seem so immediate you forget that character used to mean another thing. That there has been linguistic change.

      2 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
    7. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 28 Nov 2020
      Replying to @jeannette_ng @arthur_affect and

      Have we brought up how the use of Chinese characters to transliterate loanwords can result in added meaning? It blew my mind utterly to learn that the origin of 台灣 wasn't that it looked like a platform. It's a transliteration of an older native name.

      2 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Nov 2020
      Replying to @jeannette_ng @AmeliaRoseWrite @SpaceKujira

      Ha, yes, the Chinese colonizers themselves pulled the same thing that Europeans pulled on them when they turned "Guangdong" into "Canton"

      1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @jeannette_ng and

      My mom told me once about how she struggled for the longest time, as someone who moved to Hong Kong as a child, with why the HK term for Western-style bread is 吐司 (tǔsī in Mandarin, "tou si" in Mandarin)

      3 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @jeannette_ng and

      It's just two completely unrelated characters, "bite the wax tadpole" style It wasn't until she actually learned English in high school that she had a lightbulb moment -- "It's just 'toast'!"

      3 replies 2 retweets 11 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @jeannette_ng and

      The fact that the Hong Kong word for American-style sliced bread is "toast" because that's the only form in which they eat it is a whole other thing (In this culinary matter they are, of course, correct)

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        1. Cheese Borb‏ @mmmfromage 28 Nov 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @jeannette_ng and

          I can't help but feel like I'm saying "gimme lots of poop!" when I order toast at a restaurant because I sound like a demented toddler when I try to speak Cantonese

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        1. Joseph Zitt‏ @josephzitt 28 Nov 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @jeannette_ng and

          Here in Israel, I've only seen "toast" used to refer to a sort of panini. I don't think I've seen an American-style toaster or what Americans call toast.

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        1. Jack Alderton‏ @RetroRaiderD42 28 Nov 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @jeannette_ng and

          My GF is Austrian (I'm English) and she also uses the term this way, for the exact same reason, and it still throws me off.

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