狂愛釣魚台,猛練七傷拳(下)

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圖 1. China and Japan, map in China : The Country, History, and People (London, 1867), detail. 紅框內字為「China」,藍線上的字則為「Yunnan」

中國人拿西方國家製作的古地圖去爭釣魚台(尖閣群島),此舉形同練七傷拳。為什麼?答案明顯地寫在本文上篇提到的那張題為China and Japan的地圖上。

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Definiendum : honesty

Honesty is such a lonely word.

Billy Joel

honesty /ˈɒnəsti, ˈɒnisti/ noun

Lucian of Samosata says that a good historian should “call a fig a fig, and a trough a trough” (τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάφην δὲ σκάφην ὀνομάσων).  This expression prefigures some idioms of modern European languages, as “call a spade a spade” (English), “appeler un chat un chat” (French), or “llamar al pan, pan y al vino, vino” (Spanish). Living languages convey living traditions. In the modern Olympic games of the last three decades, people call Taiwan “Chinese Taipei”.

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