Hate evil, part 2

Language Log 2024-11-24

Summary:

A couple of days ago we examined the mystifying Literary Sinitic / Classical Chinese (LS/CC) collocation 惡惡 (here).  After considering several different ways to pronounce and interpret the elements of this expression, we decided that, in most instances, it should be read wùè and be rendered as "hate evil". Today we'll go much more slowly […]

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67050&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hate-evil-part-2

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

11/24/2024, 08:34

Date published:

11/24/2024, 06:34