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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="4">Dear
everyone who joined to help me. <o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="4">I
am grateful and now have all the information I needed<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">1)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: MingLiU-ExtB, serif;">𥣋</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <span lang="EN-US">is indeed </span></span><span style="font-family: MingLiU-ExtB, serif;">𥣋</span><span style="font-family: 바탕, serif;">秫</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <span lang="EN-US">chin. <i>shushu. </i>In pre-mod.
Kor. texts </span></span>슈슈<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">….> </span>수수<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">, and it is sorghum </span></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:38.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd;
text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">2)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Maize is </span><span style="font-family: 바탕, serif;">玉</span><span style="font-family: MingLiU-ExtB, serif;">𥣋</span><span style="font-family: 바탕, serif;">秫</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">, kor. </span><span style="font-family: 바탕, serif;">옥슈슈</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">> </span><span style="font-family: 바탕, serif;">옥수수, </span></font><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="4">and when some modern dictionaries get this wrong, well, cross-checking is not a favorite sport in modern publishing business, and dictionaries are written by people who have no dirt under their fingernails.</font></span></p>
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text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">3)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The direction to the </span><span style="font-family: 바탕, serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">漢韓大辭典-</span></font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="4">quote</font></span><font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black;">was important. I find it interesting that my author uses this
obscure character. The fellow seems to have been fond of reading novels. By the
way, the author was </span><span style="color: black;">도애</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">홍석모</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black;"> 1781-1857, and the manuscript is the </span></span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: 바탕, serif;">東國歲時記, </span></font><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="4">a wonderful text if you like to sometimes chew on one short phrase for a full day.</font></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:38.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd;
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text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="4">Thank you all very much again, you were of great help <o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Werner Sasse</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="4"> </font></span></p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:38.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd;
text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font size="4">P.S.
(Frank: you were right about the late addition of
sorghum to the Chinese agriculture and the vocabulary. You were wrong about “...knowing
Werner a little, I would suppose the text is not quite of THAT recent origin”…
Look: middle of the 19<sup>th</sup> c. is for people like me almost
contemporary…. And after all, what are 150 years in “5000 years of history” …</font></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">P.P.S. (William: The greyed out pagination for the Kangxi Zidian </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">(</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">康熙字典</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">頁</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">861</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">第</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">05</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">漢語大字典</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">卷</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">頁</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2635</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">第</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">08) in <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">(<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=gb&char=%F0%A5%A3%8B" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=gb&char=%F0%A5%A3%8B</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">)</span> is funny. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">When
you put the mouse pointer over the grey area the following text appears: </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">“The
character is <i>not included </i>in this dictionary; the <i>location given here</i> is its
<i>expected</i> location <i>had it been included</i>”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">(italics by me) I love that one…. Anyway, </span><span style="font-family: MingLiU-ExtB, serif;">𥣋</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> is not in the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kangxi Zidian, and in light of Frank’s remark, of course it is not.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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