Okay you lost me on the third bowl.

Jim

On Feb 8, 9:04 am, icetea8 > wrote:
> Lu Tong's Seven Bowls of Tea ¤C¸J¸Ö ---LuTong (Tang. 790~835)¿cÉi¡]*ð.
> 790~835¡^
> The third bowl searches my barren entrails but to find ¤T¸J·j¬\¸z¡A
> Therein some five thousand scrolls; ±©¦³¤å¦r¤*¤d¨÷¡A

Hi Jim,

> Okay you lost me on the third bowl.

I also do not understand the meaning of these verses:


>> The third bowl searches my barren entrails but to find 三碗�枯腸，
>> Therein some five thousand scrolls; 惟有文å*—五å�ƒå�·ï¼Œ

What is it about? Knowledge? Does it mean that knowledge is useless
when it is time to drink tea? Or that the only thing left ("but to
find") is knowledge?

--
Julien ÉLIE

« €“ Tu dois avoir un messager zélé autant qu'ailé pour faire
rapidement le trajet.
€“ Oui ! et c'est une fine mouche ! » (Astérix)

Youre right. Drinking tea leads to an innard :-) wisdom.

Jim

On Feb 10, 4:12 pm, Julien ÉLIE >
wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> > Okay you lost me on the third bowl.
>
> I also do not understand the meaning of these verses:
>
> >> The third bowl searches my barren entrails but to find 三碗�枯腸，
> >> Therein some five thousand scrolls; 惟有文å*—五å�ƒå�·ï¼Œ
>
> What is it about? Knowledge? Does it mean that knowledge is useless
> when it is time to drink tea? Or that the only thing left ("but to
> find") is knowledge?
>
> --
> Julien ÉLIE
>
> « €“ Tu dois avoir un messager zélé autant qu'ailé pour faire
> rapidement le trajet.
> €“ Oui ! et c'est une fine mouche ! » (Astérix)

just for fun i ran the original chinese through google translate,
actually thats not so bad for a machine,,
Seven bowls of poetry, Lu Tong, Tang. (790 ~ 835)
Run a bowl of throat kiss,
Second, breaking the bowl alone, nausea,
Three bowls of search desperately,
Text only five thousand volumes,
Siwan light-Khan,
Grievance to the pores of his life to make casual,
Wu Wan musculoskeletal clear,
Liu Wan-pass Faerie,
Not have to eat seven bowls,
CD breeze blowing gently feel the two axillary Health.
Penglai Mountain, where the wind want to go back to take this sub-
Tamagawa.

Google translate would be better if it recognized more polysyllabic
Chinese characters for words you find in dictionaries like Cedict.

Jim

On Feb 24, 6:27 am, icetea8 > wrote:
> just for fun i ran the original chinese through google translate,
> actually thats not so bad for a machine,,
> Seven bowls of poetry, Lu Tong, Tang. (790 ~ 835)
> Run a bowl of throat kiss,
> Second, breaking the bowl alone, nausea,
> Three bowls of search desperately,
> Text only five thousand volumes,
> Siwan light-Khan,
> Grievance to the pores of his life to make casual,
> Wu Wan musculoskeletal clear,
> Liu Wan-pass Faerie,
> Not have to eat seven bowls,
> CD breeze blowing gently feel the two axillary Health.
> Penglai Mountain, where the wind want to go back to take this sub-
> Tamagawa.

Space Cowboy > writes:

>Google translate would be better if it recognized more polysyllabic
>Chinese characters for words you find in dictionaries like Cedict.

Yeah, but Chinese text doesnt have spaces between words. And a given
character in a sentence might be the last character in one word or the
first in another or a middle character in yet another. Teaching a
computer program to figure out this stuff reliably would not be easy.

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

Cedict(MDBG.NET) will parse the correct polysyllabic combinations if
they exist in its dictionary. Nciku does so equally. If its not in
one it is in the other. You pick a character in a Chinese string you
dont know if it is mono or polysyllabic. Sites like these know how to
parse. If the Chinese can do it a computer can.

Jim

PS There are lists of STOP words in Chinese that help with sentence
parsing. I will say Google translate is better at this than word
parsing.

On Feb 25, 3:55 pm, Lewis Perin > wrote:
> Space Cowboy > writes:
> >Google translate would be better if it recognized more polysyllabic
> >Chinese characters for words you find in dictionaries like Cedict.
>
> Yeah, but Chinese text doesn’t have spaces between words. And a given
> character in a sentence might be the last character in one word or the
> first in another or a middle character in yet another. Teaching a
> computer program to figure out this stuff reliably would not be easy.
>
> /Lew
> ---
> Lew Perin /

I forgot to mention the other great treasure trove of Chinese
dictionaries,grammar,etc is Google Books. Find the books with Full or
Preview and use the search function for the books. Unfortunately only
English works not the Chinese.

Jim

On Feb 26, 6:27 am, Space Cowboy > wrote:
> Cedict(MDBG.NET) will parse the correct polysyllabic combinations if
> they exist in its dictionary. Nciku does so equally. If its not in
> one it is in the other. You pick a character in a Chinese string you
> dont know if it is mono or polysyllabic. Sites like these know how to
> parse. If the Chinese can do it a computer can.
>
> Jim
>
> PS There are lists of STOP words in Chinese that help with sentence
> parsing. I will say Google translate is better at this than word
> parsing.
>
> On Feb 25, 3:55 pm, Lewis Perin > wrote:
>
> > Space Cowboy > writes:
> > >Google translate would be better if it recognized more polysyllabic
> > >Chinese characters for words you find in dictionaries like Cedict.
>
> > Yeah, but Chinese text doesn’t have spaces between words. And a given
> > character in a sentence might be the last character in one word or the
> > first in another or a middle character in yet another. Teaching a
> > computer program to figure out this stuff reliably would not be easy.
>
> > /Lew
> > ---
> > Lew Perin /

Space Cowboy > writes:

>Cedict(MDBG.NET) will parse the correct polysyllabic combinations if
>they exist in its dictionary. Nciku does so equally. If its not in
>one it is in the other. You pick a character in a Chinese string you
>dont know if it is mono or polysyllabic. Sites like these know how to
>parse.

Sort of. They make plenty of mistakes.

>If the Chinese can do it a computer can.

Theres an old computer science joke that applies to the question of
parsing natural language with a finite algorithm: €œTime flies like an
arrow; fruit flies like a banana.€� Chinese isnt unique in this regard,
though the question of word boundaries makes it harder.

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html