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CHINESE LANGUAGE. The fact that certain relations,
SPIRITED REPLY TO GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
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have to be adopted does not mean that a translation is not possible! Why, the Arabic numerals and Greck lotters in English do not diminish the value of English works in mathematics.
That the restricted intermittent
A spirited reply by Dr. Lim
1 have myself heard most supply of water in all the Colony's Boon-keng, Principal of the Amoy abstract lectures in Chinese on rider main districts during January University, to the recent speech by logic, psychology, biology and was well justified is borne out by His Excellency Sir Ceell Clementi, evolution, and I have myself-talk-
modern the Water Return just Issued by at the Hongkong University, on the ed on fairly abstruse problems of
medicine, such the Water Authority. This return shortcomings of the Chinese langua- Erhlich's side chain theory the shows that the water in storage on guage, appears in the Singapore Professor Leo of the University the island on February 1st was Free Press. This is in the form of of Amoy discourses on the most 1,017 million gallons as compared a letter to the editor of that journal, recondite questions of argonie and analytical chemistry entirely, with 1,882 million gallons on the and is in the following terms:
With due respect to Sir Ceel in Chinese. same date last year when partial
The fact le that Chinese is restriction was also in operation. Clementi, whose learned address The consumption during January delivered at the Hongkong Univer-unique among the languages of was 218 million gallons, and it will 'sity on the difficulties of the Chin the world. Its contemporaries of therefore be seen that the marginese language shows that he has 8,000 B.C. have all been dead long 18 none too great, although there given the subject much thought age-even those of 500 B.C. are Is the prospect of good rains before and study, I beg to differ from His quite extinct. The classical lan on a few guages of Greece and Rome are long. We have had two very wet Excellency's opinions
Universities. But the language years and, in pursuance of the law points which are of great impor-only kept alive in the schools and of averages, we are bound to got tance..
a dry one sooh, and if 1926 should (1) There is no Fuklen dialect of Confucius is still the language of China to-day, and of the Far prove to be under the average in which the word for. Tea is pro- yield te wisdom of the Water Au-nounced Ti, as Sir Cect alleges. East for the Koreans, Japanese, thority in putting the rider main Tea was originally brought to Eur-and Annamites can communicate
Chinese script. districts on short rations will be ope evidently by the Dutch who had with the Chinese by means of the more than vindicated.
factories in Formosa, from Amoy,
Of course, there are difficulties. In Kowloon, where there is a full where. Tea is called Tay-just as in translation but they occur in supply, the storage on February the Malays "all over Malaya prall languages and are of the same 1st amounted to 200 million gal-nounce It. The French word the
the idiosyncracies of different lons, as against 255 million gallons confirms this. The German thee is nature; and, they depend upon last year. The consumption dur-alse sounded Tay. The natives of authors, wishing to adopt dif ing January was 70 million gallons, London in Cockney fashion proferent roots and different inter- and, although at that rate there is nounce Tea more like the Malay pretations. only three months' supply left it Tay than Ti
On the other hand, it is also a has to be borne in mind that the Kowloon storage is very quickly made up owing to the large area over which the water is collected.
lan-
The
(2) The differences of dialects fact that, certain specifically in China are due to the same kind Chinese ideas can hardly be trans- of causes which produce dialects lated literally into English, or
The Mandarin elsewhere.
any European language. guage is now the lingua franca of Chinese have many terms express- all educated Chinese. In Amoy ng relations and relationships EDUCATION ECONOMY.University, students from all parts that require lengthy descriptions. of China "speak Mandarin, and But this is really not peculiar to listen to lectures in Mandarin. Chinesc.
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A LIBERAL PROTEST. Throughout Malaya, through the; (5.) It is a pleasure to find movement started by me and others myself in agreement with Sir London; Feb. 8.
in 1894, Mandarin is now the com-Cecil in his advocacy of a second Sir John Simon moved a Liberal mon speech of all educated Chinese language, and of English as such (3) Mistranslation of Buddhist a language; though his reasons amendment dealing with education when the debate on the Address sutras. Sir Cecil Clementi. evident-are not sound. Chinese is not “a was continued in the House of ly forgets that many sanskrit warda very, refractory medium for inter- of Western idens." Commons. The amendment parti- appear in Buddhist literature, just pretation cularly took exception to the recent as many Latin terms occur in Ca- English as a second language is substitution of block grants for the tholic publications, The Buddhists necessary in order to hasten the percentage grant which was con-read the sutras in sanskrit written aequisition of western thought sidered to paralyse educational in Chinese phonetically. With re-and culture, since the number of is still in- progress. Sir John Simon argued gard to the name Kwan-yin-surely translated books that the proposed grant of a fixed the Buddhist pioneers rever Intend-adequate.
I have ventured to make the sum encouraged a backward Edu-ed to convey such "nonsense" as) cational Authority to do as little "overlooking sound" to the prac-above criticism since the high as possible, beyond complying with tical Chinese: The Chinese word position of Sir Cecil Clementi may minimum requirements. Sir John Yin does not necessarily mean mislead many readers of his Simon contrasted this move, which sound; thus Fu-yin-literally "hap speech into thinking that the he declared represented a4 new piness-sound" which seem quite Chinese language is really "the policy dictated by an embarrassed ridiculous enough, but they are the linguistic bed of Precuatio" which Chancellor of the Exchequer, with equivalent of the Greek word for Flis Excellency the Governor of bc. Chinese newspapers to-day the latter's generous policy to gospel. Kwan yin is the title of Hongkong seems to believe it to Italy in conneetiön with the debt "the Goddess of Mercy" and is an
world events and scientific pro- settlement agreement at the ex-abbrevriated form of Kuan Shih discuss daily and comment upon Yin p'u-sa de, the Boddisatra pense of the British taxpayer.
GOVERNMENT'S DEFENCE. whose interests are in this world. Kress without the slightest dif
or any Chinese University for that tion and transmission of Radio Telegrams and for reporting vessels Lord Eustace Percy, Minister Kuan equals regard, or look after: culty, and the University of Amoy,
Yin" equals noise, sound, effects; passing WAGLAN and GAP ROCK LIGHTHOUSES.
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then means "interested in the ROCK LIGHTHOUSES are requested to send revised lists of vessels of system was unsatisfactory andie, world's affairs. Kuan-yin to send to Hongkong a lecturer to in pure and elegant Chinese at which they are the owners, or agents, to the Officer-in-Charge, as carly as that the block grant system was
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The Duchess of Atholl said that.
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different thing from "the nonsense"
of overlooking sound"-which Sir Cecil made it out to be."
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Sir Cecil Immagined, but had a de-to know what medicine to give finite object in merely making their little ones. The child falls sick with griping pains, vomiting, phonetic translation just as. At noon to-day the following Catholics writes down in English. gets feverish, screams for no ap- diarrhoea, croup; or suddenly vessels were expected to be in "Pater noster" and "ave maria!" wiresless communication
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