Guest guest Posted September 15, 2002 Report Share Posted September 15, 2002 I haven't read the article yet. Every time, which are several, I've tried to iron out some of the obvious suspects of the nuances of the chinese language with my Chinese colleagues, they always just shrugged their shoulders and said, " It's your language, use what you think is best. " But what little study I've done in character study has been very fruitful. The Phd's I've talked to about their language requirements hated it but in their fields there has been so much recognizable technical terminology that the exam is not that extreme. I've given myself the next three years to study the language and hope to get some sort of proficiency in medical language by then. doug : > But I think the average person > and even most western doctors are pretty utilitarian about words. And > while there were a small number of scholar doctors in ancient, I can > hardly believe that most doctors in ancient times were any less > utilitarian as a group, just because they were chinese. In fact, many of > my chinese colleagues are the most utilitarian doctors I have ever met > (and often quite skillful in terms of success rates). So I still maintain > that except for the rarefied few, the importance of learning the chinese > language is mainly to get access to more data. while there are some who > may actually come to deeply understand the depth you describe, I suspect > these will be few and that they were always few, even in ancient china > herself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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