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| adam |
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The Chinese Zodiac is a 12 year cycle. Each year of the 12 year cycle
is named after one the original 12 animals.You may have heard of “Year
of the Rabbit” or “Year of the Pig” referencing to a particular year.
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| Peter T. Daniels |
| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:57 pm |
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On Apr 28, 1:53 pm, adam <afunad...@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: The Chinese Zodiac is a 12 year cycle. Each year of the 12 year cycle
is named after one the original 12 animals.You may have heard of “Year
of the Rabbit” or “Year of the Pig” referencing to a particular year..
Indeed, many of us have dined at Chinese restaurants with calendar
placemats.
Or collected the 12-year set of US stamps in honor of the Chinese
yearly cycle.
("Zodiac" means something quite different.) |
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| Trond Engen |
| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:26 am |
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Hei.
Peter T. Daniels skreiv:
Quote: On Apr 28, 1:53 pm, adam <afunad...@gmail.com> wrote:
The Chinese Zodiac is a 12 year cycle. Each year of the 12 year cycle
is named after one the original 12 animals.You may have heard of “Year
of the Rabbit” or “Year of the Pig” referencing to a particular year.
Indeed, many of us have dined at Chinese restaurants with calendar
placemats.
I read this as "calendar playmates". I must have been thinking of the
'year of the rabbit'.
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Trond Engen
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| Peter T. Daniels |
| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:47 am |
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On Apr 29, 3:26 am, Trond Engen <trond...@engen.priv.no> wrote:
Quote: Hei.
Peter T. Daniels skreiv:
On Apr 28, 1:53 pm, adam <afunad...@gmail.com> wrote:
The Chinese Zodiac is a 12 year cycle. Each year of the 12 year cycle
is named after one the original 12 animals.You may have heard of “Year
of the Rabbit” or “Year of the Pig” referencing to a particular year.
Indeed, many of us have dined at Chinese restaurants with calendar
placemats.
I read this as "calendar playmates". I must have been thinking of the
'year of the rabbit'.
Maybe restaurants in lands whose civilization is older than ours don't
use disposable printed paper placemats. |
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| Richard Herring |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:45 am |
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In message
<59b6fae0-0e26-4121-a101-53b54d828942@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@verizon.net> writes
Quote: On Apr 29, 10:44Â am, Richard Herring <junk@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
In message
713d55bc-fd44-4a9c-96f4-e94bde231...@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
Peter T. Daniels <gramma...@verizon.net> writes
On Apr 29, 3:26Â am, Trond Engen <trond...@engen.priv.no> wrote:
Hei.
Peter T. Daniels skreiv:
On Apr 28, 1:53 pm, adam <afunad...@gmail.com> wrote:
The Chinese Zodiac is a 12 year cycle. Each year of the 12 year cycle
is named after one the original 12 animals.You may have heard of “Year
of the Rabbit” or “Year of the Pig” referencing to a particular year.
Indeed, many of us have dined at Chinese restaurants with calendar
placemats.
I read this as "calendar playmates". I must have been thinking of the
'year of the rabbit'.
Maybe restaurants in lands whose civilization is older than ours don't
use disposable printed paper placemats.
They're supposed to have invented paper and printing [*], so why not
placemats?
I was referring to Trond's Norway ...
Ah. I read your "ours" more inclusively than maybe you intended. Since
his civilization isn't notably older than mine, that possibility didn't
occur to me.
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[*] and, according to the incapable relater of imagined tales named Kai
Lung, mass-produced willow-pattern crockery
It's actually very useful for dating industrial-archeology sites: the
Chinese export ware is enormously common and precisely datable (the
Art Institute of Chicago has many shelves of it on display, and
doubtless many more in storage).
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/klsgh10.txt(chapter II)
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| Trond Engen |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:13 am |
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Richard Herring:
Quote: Peter T. Daniels:
Richard Herring:
Peter T. Daniels:
Trond Engen:
Peter T. Daniels:
Indeed, many of us have dined at Chinese restaurants with
calendar placemats.
I read this as "calendar playmates". I must have been thinking of
the 'year of the rabbit'.
Maybe restaurants in lands whose civilization is older than ours
don't use disposable printed paper placemats.
They're supposed to have invented paper and printing [*], so why
not placemats?
I was referring to Trond's Norway ...
Ah. I read your "ours" more inclusively than maybe you intended.
Since his civilization isn't notably older than mine, that
possibility didn't occur to me.
[For some reason Peter's message dropped in together with Richard's
reply. Deliveries on my servers from GG seem to be ruled by hazard.]
Me neither. How can a merited scholar concider our culture to be civilized?
Seriously, much like in the USA, it's a common myth here that since we
were a nation of farmers and fishermen until the late 19th century, our
civilization is young and loosely founded. However, there's evidence
from centuries back that the intellectual and societal life in the
international trade ports of Bergen and Trondheim was on par with cities
elsewhere. And anyway, until the end of the 19th century every country
was largely rural, every city was largely populated by a newly arrived
working class, and more than basic education for the masses was still
merely a nice idea. Thus, the international culture of the small urban
classes of merchants and officials didn't run deep anywhere.
But then, our first dedicated opera stage was opened a few weeks ago. We
don't share all aspects of the common European heritage.
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Trond Engen
- taking his wife there this weekend, wearing earplugs and watching the
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| Brian M. Scott |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:18 pm |
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:13:27 +0200, Trond Engen
<trondnet@engen.priv.no> wrote in
<news:48185551$0$2669$8404b019@news.wineasy.se> in sci.lang:
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Quote: But then, our first dedicated opera stage was opened a few
weeks ago. [...]
Woe! The barbarians are within the gates!
Brian |
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