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to be held on MONDAY, the 3rd day of February, 1980, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order.of His Excellency the Gor Dr. Evan Morgan delivered an interesting address on "Language records below his amazement at the ernor, of one Lot of Grown Land and New Thought" or "New Wards for New Ideas" before a gather-clothes vorn, and not worn, by the at Shamshulpo, in the Colony ing of the North China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in men and women of the country: of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 Shanghai recently. years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crowa Rent to be fixed by the TO LET-Office (2 Rooms) to be let Surveyor of His Majesty the King, 1030, in Hong for one further term of 24 years Kong Club (Annex). Apply Secre-leas three days.
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In late summer I arrived, and it We are living in an epoch of exceptional weight in the creation is now winter, but I have seen no of new words, said Dr. Morgan. It is an age full of perplexity and change in the clothes of the honour- difficulty, of disaster and change. It is an age of transition and able population. Such a habit must cataclysmic events, nevertheless it is an age rich in new thoughts be almost unknown among human and words, which are finding their way into the new dictionaries.
Įbeings; even the animals change
their coats with the
It must be because your sclence teaches you to defy Nature. On the other hand, if they were elegant clothes there might be some excuse, words were an old combination too, but the tailors put such odd gar- road. Both were used in the ments on the backs of males and new terms. Old terms remained but females here! I will pass by the they connoted new ideas and so they coarse stuffs of which male clothes were classed as new ternis.
aro, made. You have neither silks The Importance of Mats nor furs in sufficient quantity, so After referring to several new one must make allowances for your outstanding words and phrases, es necessary reliance on wool. And, pecially those used in connection already so handicapped, why cut with Nationallam, the speaker them in such a manner? The ends asked his hearers to note the beauti-of trousers flap, in the wind and ful simplicity of some of the trail an eighth of an inch from the phrases. He then took a mat, very ground to pick up your British mud. old word, almost the earliest in any I
Leel this
road - sweeping language implying kneeling cere- so much that I beg you monies, etc. It appears, too, in new to tie these ends with tapes terms. To be present at a meeting as we do. Besides, it keeps is th' hai come forth on the mat, one's shinbones much warmer, absence from a meeting la ch-uch Do not under-rate the importance haithe mat is absent.. It is very of warm shinbones, especially when interesting, said Dr. Morgan, to they are exposed to the mercy of note these traces of ancient cour-the eight million pairs of scurrying tesies with the new age. It does boots of London. Get a kick on not menn to break with the past: it them cold and you would wish them is a development.
Boy-cott, Bolsheviks
(Ti-chih, Chik-lich-tang), now ideas and new words both in English and Chinese, will be an interesting study of some future historian as he tries to ex- pound the catastrophic age of the 20th century-for the rumbling.and reverberations, of the present, will pass through many future centurica and be recorded, partly, in words the present in creating.... Like everything else, said Dr. Morgan, language is in the process of de- velopment. Whilst it would not be correct to say the language is new, nevertheless there are many new things in it. And the new things are finding much favour. But the law of order must be remembered, Dean Inge has said: "It is most significant that the gospel at once introduced a new ethical termino- logy. The Greek words which we translate love (or charity), joy, peace, hope, humility are no part of the stock-in-trade of Greek moral-
lats before Christ. Men do not coin new words for old ideas." The rule then is, new ideas first and then new words to describe new things.
From Sounds to Script The speaker then quoted Prof. Ker, "No dictionary can keep up with the language: for new words spring up the day after the sheets have been passed for the press. . ." Why is it that certain words great ly predominate in an Anglo-Chinese dictionary? For one thing, Chinese is very short in terminal conso-
The following unclaimed tele-nants but not poor in the initials. grams are lying at the E. This makes one of the greatest diff Mild climate and healthful sur-Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:-culties in transliteration. It may be roundings, specially suitable for
Mohameddin, Shoemaker Somer-that English has too many conso colonial boys and boys from urban set, from Singapore.
nants at the end of a word. The areas. Preparatory School adjacent.
Sohan Singh Jat, Sikh Temple, utterance of them seems to clog the Prospectus and full particulare from Patti, India.
mouth. Chinese, on the other hand, may be obtained on application to
does not seem to be able to end a the School Secretary, or at the
sound without the departing sound Office of this paper.
Headmaster, HUGH F. MARTIN,
of a vowel. How did this come about? Sounds first, script second, B.A., (Oxon.)
is the order of creation and organ isation. So the Chinese had the Hounds.
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The Chinese language, Dr. Mor- The coats are plezed together in gan continues, has great facility in such tiny sections that they remind making new words. Years ago, Dr. me of our beggars' garments or of Wells Williams made the statement our comic opera costumes. that Chinese was the most compet- lacking in understanding? Perhaps ent language to become a universal you do not make length of material one if only facility in making new longer than a yard at a time.' But worda were the only requirement. most dreadful of all is the tight- In this respect, the Chinese has cerness of these coata. Now, tain words and there are not a few how Can A man scratch his which it can take as terminals or back In such A coat? Do suffixes and thus create new com- not holst & pounds with ease.
superior noso and belittle the joys of scratching. There is none more innocent and few so satisfactory.
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Dealing with sobriquets and nick names, the speaker remarked that it has been the fashion in every Now we come to your men's hats. country to give sobriquets to some Two are black boxes-the first is prominent person or exceptional in-like a dish-cover and the second tall dividual. The advent of now-times, and shining like a flower-pot. Un- bringing fresh individuals on the scrupuloua tradesmen have tried scene, was a favourite occasion for hard to sell me both, with small this. It was an old custom. If the chance of success. They ring like English are adroit in the art of a hollow tree when struck and are nicknames, so are the Chinese. One no less hard. I commend you on accomplished missionary was called the toughness of your heads. the san ku'ai-three fasts: he talk Fully now do I understand how ed fast, ate fast and walked fast. hardy a race you are. Another had the sobriquet of tiger. The anti-Christians
A Sartorial Joke call the mis- sionary the yang ta jen - foreign In summer you also wear a straw
some of their own people the san-fal does not know that only coolics --three exclusives, who are the old wear straw hats? Yet I have seen military, the rich parvenue and the one perched grotesquely on the head The Christians of the of a prosperous rotund citizen. American church have added chico But perhaps he was a comic actor to fa, making the chiao fa, the advertising his calling
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PRIMARY EDUCATION
Lingul School
for
Skin Irritations
Quickly Healed
By the Fare Antisepție Ieu will be surprised to see how quite you earlier froen asana, PLANE, DĚRDINA, petia,
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good dristate. Sibutor Maler & Phipps, Mandauanghal-004 0.
To add a kindergarten in each of
the normal and primary schools.
Educating the Peasants '
די
cational
It is announced that classes the peasants will be soon established by the Edu-.. schools in
Bureau within the the suburbs, funds to be given by the Municipality. For the present, only night classes will be organized.
shen the god of wealth, possibly Then why are your soft hats grey? post as director of the 8th Route wealth and perhaps because he held black box that collapses I am going Kwong-yu, while that of the prin because he was the disposer of vast They give me the creepe
But the Aviation Bureau to Col. Wong it in strict control: he was the to take home with me and present cipal of the Aviation School to Col. careful god of wealth, We have the to a
That is yet the Young Koon-yul. malicious terms yang fen toou kou, best sartorial joke I have here come the running dogs of the foreigner, across. and the yang nu, the slave of the
Of male evening attire, I can only The Lingui School is preparing to foreigner.. "I have not," said Dr. think that some code of yours im- put on an exhibition of the work of
One Dollar Notes Morgan, "been able to find many poses penance on you. How come the students who will also stage a It is reported on good authority examples of deterioration of new you to wear a stiff board on your drama and dancing. The exhibi-that the Provincial Chairman, Gen- words in Chinese or old words for chest? Then you have only two tion will be opened on February 1eral Chan Ming-shu, bas ordered the matter of that, but the old coats, and one of them is,short, but for a period of seven days.
the Finance Department and the phrase yang ta-fen (foreign gentle-I daresay you do not consider this
Central Bank to man), applied to the missionary. I immodest. The other looks as
restricted redemption of the $1. facilities Central Bank notes, in order to give to the merchants
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Primary Education
This has a tinge of having gone though a tiger has taken a bite out ned by the Director of the Educa
The following programme plan- of its front, leaving the two talls tional Department of the Ministry to dangle at the back.
worse."
announce “un-
in their transactions on account of the Chinese New Year,
The Guilty Journalist There is one vital element. regard-
Of British women's clothes I dare of Education, will be put into effect
Shament ing new terms that should be hardly write. These clothes looked this year, it is reported: watched with care, especially by the at first to me
as though they had A. Public-Eudcation.
A report states that bund will Chinese, and it is to take the words been designed to show off the female
To find out the number of boys' be constructed at Hohow, in view for the things. All are able to form. But I could not believe my
and girls of eligible school age. of summer floods. An engineering In English and that used in Chinese.err in this respect. There are many eyes. I thought there was a mis-
To ascertain the number of prim-party has already been despatched. English has borrowed largely from, fine words, high sounding and pom-take somewhere.
ary school teachers.
to make surveya outside, Chinese from within in the pous phrases, current in and around creation of new terms. Thus, for us. The end of words is not in
Glittering Restaurants
the new. The new alone is dadger-1) d have dined at your glittering restaurants. By my venerable an- Asking "Who are the creators or ceators, the undressing is deliberatel the new terms? Dr. Morgan aali A lady is most a lady who takes it was difficult to say. For the most off for dinner most of all « On no part, they are unknown, mostly battlefield, I vow, has there ever fournalists and writers of books, been raring to match this of your
For the information of visitors the most part, the language de- themselves but in the things they Yet dimly an idea had boon form- the following list of some of the velops by a new shuffling, new com-represent no it is absolutely noces. Ing at the back of my mind--that highest points on the Island and binations, now arrangement of old sary to be clear on what le meant our women talk freely of their Mainiand is published:-
words. Very often a new content by new terms and, when they are anatomy, but expose none of it, is given to an old phrase. The word clear, they should be beacons to while yours deny the existence of "pray" is "tao kap" but the sus lead us to certain attainments and their anatomy and expose as much tom" and the experience of the ends. The old must co-operate with of it as they dare. Christian Church has given a new content so that the phrase is con sidered to be a new one. Hallway 1805 (tieth iron and toe-road) are old words but until recently they were never in alliance. There have been many roads beside the railroad but the experiance of the Chinese was 8124 limited until the thing Italf camo 1871 upon them. When it did come, they
were ready with name, fron road The speaker believed that alan was the first name given to the inven- tiori in England: they called it the fron road and the iron horse...
nese had done much the game. | chan also bad the rail r
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Stealthily have these new members ladies in dining-rooma. crept into the family of language. I sorrow for British fathers, They have only sought a place for husbands, and brothers Nightly their offspring, they have coveted must they hide their heads in no name or glory for themselves. It shame and lament their unthinking is so with most of the operators and encouragement of the vanity of their forces of creation. And even where unscrupulous complement called wo the authors own it is only so by man.
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and not design. (Applause.) "Oh is it necessary for me
the lecture, the chair come all this way to tell you that thehalf of the audience, er- If you
female an inch of
theart
vote of thanks to
will take a yard of
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To make investigations Into the funds for primary education. To formulate outlines for public
education.
To establish and enlargo normal
schools.
To draw regulations for public
primary school buildings.
To initiate public education in the provincial capitals and municipalition, N Primary Education Improvement.
To publish standard curriculum
for the primary grade.
To determine standard for dis-
cipline.
To organize juvenile literary.
To organize ju
To draw up regulations for pri-
vate primary schools.
To fx qualifications and treat-
ment of primary ..school teachers,
G. Kindergarten Education Ex
tension.
Standards" for kindergarten. To instal á kindergarten teach- ers class in the normal schools of the country
A
Abolition of Extrality demonstration
was held at. Shulkwan by the different unions and organizations in connection with the abolition of extrality. It is said that several thousands of people participated in the demon- stration-Canton News Agency.
STANDARD TIMES
Sunrise And Sunset In Colony
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong for January (Standard time: of the 120th Meridian, East of Greenwich); are as follow:
January 26
Sunrise Sunist..
7.05
pim
6:07:
7:04 27.04*
·0:08:
7.04
6.08 6:09+
7.84 6,10
7.00% 0.10
2:08. 811