Purpose of this blog
So I have this blog for a few weeks already. I didn't need a blog b4, and don't really need one now. Besides, judging from the number of comments i have, hardly anyone reads it. So what in good heavens is this blog for?
Well i guess i started an account so i can write comments on other people's blogs. But another useful purpose has emerged - for me to practise my chinese. It's been a while since i write in chinese and i am really rusty. It is crucial i dun degenerate into another ang moh pai person. After all, feelings and emotions are best expressed in chinese - english just ain't sufficient for this purpose. Maybe us chinese are very emotional people.
Well i guess i started an account so i can write comments on other people's blogs. But another useful purpose has emerged - for me to practise my chinese. It's been a while since i write in chinese and i am really rusty. It is crucial i dun degenerate into another ang moh pai person. After all, feelings and emotions are best expressed in chinese - english just ain't sufficient for this purpose. Maybe us chinese are very emotional people.
posted by Yifan at 9:58 PM
1 Comments:
I think Eastern philosophy is closer to human intuitions, while Western philosophy to logic/rationality. That's why sentimentalist works such as Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" were seen as a bit too weepy and cheesy, but if you translate the sentiments into Chinese it sounds quite ok, if not perfectly normal. Chinese is a condensed language, and so has a lot of room for imagination. It's a language of poetry =)
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