maxiewawa

I just hate Chinese 成语. These are four character idioms that are a feature of the Chinese language. No, I take that back actually, a lot of them are used in Japanese, but are called something different 「四字熟語」.

The infuriating part is that they are used so differently to English idioms. It seems to me that English idioms are just “picked up”, where Chinese idioms have to be studied laboriously. English idioms seem to come from everyday vocab, where Chinese idioms sometimes feature words and readings that no one uses any more, outside that one specific circumstance.

Anyway, just taking time out from memorising pages of these bloody things to moan a bit about it.

Mood: Back to work!!!