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| yobar Diglot Groupie United States Joined 7033 days ago 52 posts - 54 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: German, Spanish, Irish | Message 1 of 3 23 August 2012 at 5:03pm | IP Logged |
I watched the film Miller's Crossing last night and saw a Chinese phrase, 春長, near the end. It's a Coen brothers film, so I look for hidden meanings in the details and wondered about this. I was able to find the characters in my dictionary, but no help on the phrase itself. Any help for a seeker? TIA!
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6583 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 2 of 3 23 August 2012 at 5:11pm | IP Logged |
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Most likely it's written from right to left, as was the standard for most of Chinese history and which you still see sometimes in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The traditional characters support that theory, too. That'd make it 長春, a city in China. Literal meaning "Long spring".
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| yobar Diglot Groupie United States Joined 7033 days ago 52 posts - 54 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: German, Spanish, Irish | Message 3 of 3 24 August 2012 at 12:16am | IP Logged |
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Thanks, Ari. I had forgotten about the R->L in Chinese. I still have some Chinese newspapers from Houston, Texas that read that way.
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