4/23/2006: Carved gourd

Undertoad · 04-23-2006, 02:43 PM

Are you out of your gourd? What does that mean, anyway?

A mini gourd engraved with tiny Chinese characters is pictured in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. The common gourd, with the actual size of a table tennis ball, has changed its appearance after 240 ancient Chinese poems with around 5,000 characters are engraved on it by Ruan Wenhui, a master in Chinese handicrafts industry, through three-month-long elaboration, Xinhua news agency said.

wolf · 04-23-2006, 03:32 PM

How do you do something like that without wite out? And if you do screw up, do you not tell anyone because you're pretty sure no one will notice?

xoxoxoBruce · 04-23-2006, 03:44 PM

Damn fool, he could have done it with a laser in minutes.

Trilby · 04-23-2006, 04:31 PM

I love gourds. You can't have too many gourds.

Pancake Man · 04-23-2006, 04:44 PM

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How do you do something like that without wite out?

Ancient Chinese secret...

capnhowdy · 04-23-2006, 05:21 PM

I love goulds.

Howevel, I have nevel lead one.

Kagen4o4 · 04-23-2006, 06:42 PM

thats lacists

milkfish · 04-23-2006, 07:42 PM

It would be worth buying if those were 240 limericks.

Dee · 04-24-2006, 05:32 AM

i met a man once he was a dental technician and could write that small he could write up to 16 characters on a piece of rice (uncooked mind you) i thought that was impressive but nothing compared to this picture.

SteveDallas · 04-24-2006, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Dee

i met a man once he was a dental technician and could write that small he could write up to 16 characters on . . . .

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Originally Posted by Dee

. . . a piece of rice

Oh, OK. I was waiting for you to say he could write on your molar with a drill...

ashke · 04-24-2006, 06:26 AM

The microchip before the microchip =D

Ibby · 04-24-2006, 06:34 AM

Characters as in chinese/japanese/korean or characters as in A/B/C?

Uryoces · 04-24-2006, 11:49 AM

Oriental languages are idogrammatic. Each character means something, as opposed to the characters simply referring to a sound.

sordid · 04-24-2006, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Uryoces

Oriental languages are idogrammatic. Each character means something, as opposed to the characters simply referring to a sound.

That's true for Chinese and a certain Japanese writing, Kanji.
It's wrong for Thai, Korean, Hiragana Japanese, Katakana Japanese... - actually it's wrong for ANY language but Kanji and Chinese.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-24-2006, 05:01 PM

Welcome to the Cellar, sordid.

So those oriental characters are sounds or syllables?

04-23-2006, 02:43 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	4/23/2006: Carved gourd Are you out of your gourd? What does that mean, anyway? A mini gourd engraved with tiny Chinese characters is pictured in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. The common gourd, with the actual size of a table tennis ball, has changed its appearance after 240 ancient Chinese poems with around 5,000 characters are engraved on it by Ruan Wenhui, a master in Chinese handicrafts industry, through three-month-long elaboration, Xinhua news agency said.

04-23-2006, 03:32 PM	#2
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	How do you do something like that without wite out? And if you do screw up, do you not tell anyone because you're pretty sure no one will notice? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

04-23-2006, 03:44 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Damn fool, he could have done it with a laser in minutes. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

04-23-2006, 04:31 PM	#4
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I love gourds. You can't have too many gourds. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

04-23-2006, 05:21 PM	#6
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	I love goulds. Howevel, I have nevel lead one. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

04-23-2006, 06:42 PM	#7
Kagen4o4 The Sheriff of Nothingland Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 1,794	thats lacists __________________ something we both can enjoy??

04-23-2006, 07:42 PM	#8
milkfish A serene breakdown Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Northern NJ, USA Posts: 266	It would be worth buying if those were 240 limericks.

04-24-2006, 05:32 AM	#9
Dee Disorderly Disciplinarian Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Kalgoorlie Posts: 21	i met a man once he was a dental technician and could write that small he could write up to 16 characters on a piece of rice (uncooked mind you) i thought that was impressive but nothing compared to this picture. __________________ Its better to light a candle then curse the dark.

04-24-2006, 06:26 AM	#11
ashke Don't look at me! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Singapore Posts: 288	The microchip before the microchip =D

04-24-2006, 06:34 AM	#12
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Characters as in chinese/japanese/korean or characters as in A/B/C?

04-24-2006, 11:49 AM	#13
Uryoces 2nd Covenant, yo Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Pugetropolis Posts: 583	Oriental languages are idogrammatic. Each character means something, as opposed to the characters simply referring to a sound. __________________ The party's over ... the drink ... and the luck ... ran out.

04-24-2006, 05:01 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Welcome to the Cellar, sordid. So those oriental characters are sounds or syllables? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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