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To: null and void

Yep - crisis in Chinese is “wei ji”, wei (first tone, no inflection) means danger, and ji (also first tone, no inflection) means opportunity.

But in Chinese, a crisis is usually bad; opportunity here is interpreted as negative because of the danger associated. This means it’s a bad happening, not necessarily an opportunity like we think! Remember, eating some hemlock gives you the opporunity to die; not guaranteed, but not the type of oppportunity I want to take!


38 posted on 11/28/2007 8:04:40 AM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Tagline: Kinda like a chorus line but without the legs)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier
Remember, eating some hemlock gives you the opporunity to die; not guaranteed, but not the type of oppportunity I want to take!

OTOH, Fugo is still popular...

46 posted on 11/28/2007 8:26:19 AM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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