Author: filiusfilius Date: Aug 13, 2008 23:51
On Jul 19, 2:37 pm, "TE Chea" <4...@ gmail.com> wrote: > Gold was used in ancient china as money, but now money
> ( printed by government ) is not gold ( a metal ). Gold is a
> very heavy metal hence is difficult to carry as money : now
> most people want to get paid in money, not in gold.
> Money when overprinted ( as done by japs in WW2 &
> south american dictators in '70s ) will be worthless, but
> gold will always have a value.
> Mandarin is already limited in having no vocabulary for
> "metal" ( calls a metal "gold type" ), equating money /
> fund as gold only shows how stupid the writer & how
> limited mandarin's vocabulary is.
That's absolutely not the case. The character of 'Gold' in mandarin
is also used to describe the shining color of something. A shining
stuff is just our intuitive idea of metals, isn't it?
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