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Society is too generic a term. It's definitely more than that.society
/səˈsʌɪɪti/
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noun
- 1.
the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
Dear @wikiphile, I like that Chinese Wikipedia article!
Society is too generic a term. It's definitely more than that.
Pugilistic world
Sounds militaristic.How about "Martial Society"?
That is too much fantasy and romanticization from the author's POV. Wikpedia is like that, any ah gao and ah neow can edit at will.Dear @wikiphile, I like that Chinese Wikipedia article!
But here's the English Wikipedia version for those whose understanding of Chinese characters (i.e. 汉字 or 漢字, hàn zì) is not good enough:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianghu
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That is too much fantasy and romanticization from the author's POV. Wikpedia is like that, any ah gao and ah neow can edit at will.
When someone says 混江湖, does it mean that he is literally really a member of an underworld or he operates in between?
when someone says 讨江湖, does it mean that he is literally asking for a society or someone is out to hustle him?
when someone says 身在江湖 身不由己, does it mean that he really is in an underworld or he has no choice and is using it as a metaphor?
See my abstracting point?
don't even bother to explain to the ang mohs. let him keep on scratching his head to figure it out. They literally mean rivers and lake anywaySo what's your suggestion?
don't even bother to explain to the ang mohs. let him keep on scratching his head to figure it out.
Limpeh definitely not ang-moh lah. Anyway how would you explain 江湖 to an ang-moh ?I don't think the threadstarter is an ang moh, he is simply asking for suggestions.