Collapsing birth rates and an ever growing “problem” elderly cohort have been intentionally engineered… so why are some ‘authorities’ now pretending to want to incentivise an increased birth rate?
Aha (haha) I have only one nugget which I’ll run past you and maybe Mr AF (Mark) can confirm…that unlike we Westerners who tend to use tone to convey emotion, in Mandarin the tone can completely change a words meaning eg depending on tone, the same word can mean Mother, hemp or cow
That’s interesting about the Chinese symbols :) Where does one stumble across a nugget like that?
This piece of information was communicated to me by Mr. AF (Mark), an aficionado of all things Oriental!
Aha (haha) I have only one nugget which I’ll run past you and maybe Mr AF (Mark) can confirm…that unlike we Westerners who tend to use tone to convey emotion, in Mandarin the tone can completely change a words meaning eg depending on tone, the same word can mean Mother, hemp or cow