Monday, October 04, 2004

The Word "She" and "!"

Just read the paper and notice that in chinese character, "she" wasn't invented till 1920 ga. Before then, there's only "He" and it's used to address both male and female (whoa, i almost typed shemale, hehehe), it's written with a "human" side, but after 1920, the word "She" is invented and it's written with "female" side. The character is invented by "Lau Poon Laong" (i'm sure u won't know the chinese name from my shitty english pronouncation). He saw that the western used both he and she to address different sex. Then he used the "she" character in a song to address a person oversea thinking about his country (China). Using "she" to address a country is also copied from western ga. And then he introducted exclaimation mark "!", which isn't used in chinese before ga!!! It's also copied from the western. It caused quite a strir back then, cos people don't wanted the western influence but now, it's part of the language lu.

Hope this had be informative la. Too bad i can't type chinese on the blog. Others can, but i can't. suck! \(u__u)/