Comments on: Crisis = danger + opportunity? Beating a dead horse back to life http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2009/03/crisis-danger-opportunity-beating-a-dead-horse-back-to-life/?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid= Home of the Beijing Sounds Studios: productions mostly of language through foreign ears Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:08:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: syz http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2009/03/crisis-danger-opportunity-beating-a-dead-horse-back-to-life/comment-page-1/#comment-15633 syz Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:42:46 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=502#comment-15633 Randy, the "man on the street" quotes are fantastic. Per Victor's point #5 along with Sima's articles, it seems like we may be getting to the point that, regardless of how things started out, 危机 will soon mean 危险 + 机会 in Chinese as well as in English -- if it doesn't already. In the interest of adding something to the conversation, I decided to search google.cn for 危机 危险 机会 I don't have time to read any of the results right now, but there are 2.5m of them. Furthermore, as you type in the characters, google offers that search as a suggestion! Randy, the “man on the street” quotes are fantastic.

Per Victor’s point #5 along with Sima’s articles, it seems like we may be getting to the point that, regardless of how things started out, 危机 will soon mean 危险 + 机会 in Chinese as well as in English — if it doesn’t already.

In the interest of adding something to the conversation, I decided to search google.cn for
危机 危险 机会
I don’t have time to read any of the results right now, but there are 2.5m of them. Furthermore, as you type in the characters, google offers that search as a suggestion!

]]> By: Randy Alexander http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2009/03/crisis-danger-opportunity-beating-a-dead-horse-back-to-life/comment-page-1/#comment-15553 Randy Alexander Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:52:51 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=502#comment-15553 I'm going to have to track down Victor's index to the Hanyu Da Cidian. @Victor: thanks for your excellent comments! I’m going to have to track down Victor’s index to the Hanyu Da Cidian.

@Victor: thanks for your excellent comments!

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