Thursday 19 February 2015

A Woolly Lunar New Year



Today the Chinese Year of the Horse gives way to something more woolly, but is it a sheep/ram or a goat? There is ambiguity! 


"This Chinese lunar year, which begins today, the easily identifiablema (馬) gives way to the the vague yang (羊). The first clearly refers to a horse. 
The second, yang, is impossible to translate precisely and can equally refer to a goat or a sheep. " 
Read the whole interesting article here.

2 comments:

Nigel said...

Is that Will or Emma, considering how to herd the ovines?

Alane said...

Emma...Will has no tail, remember?