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Worth noting, that this poem only makes sense in its written form, not spoken form. Had Chinese gone full Romanization, or some kinda phonetic written system,
by tanilama 8y ago
Worth noting, that this poem only makes sense in its written form, not spoken form.
Had Chinese gone full Romanization, or some kinda phonetic written system, the trick would be lost.
- aasasd 8y agoWikipedia doesn't have the text for fear of copyright, but you can see a phonetic/romanized version here: https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-language-tonality-lion-eating_1526691.html https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-language-tonality-lion... Or in a different system here: http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML And there's a link to a reading in another comment. While a part of the effect is that each hieroglygh is read the same, I'd say another part is that it still comes out making sense. Seeing as modern English approaches being logographic, with its “spelled ‘Manchester’, pronounced ‘Liverpool’,” I wonder how many homophones and oronyms can be jammed into a phrase.