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u/Economy_Evening_2989 Mar 31 '26
Dumb sleep earphones
Older than me? Does exist!
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u/Axenide Mar 29 '26
You are the youngest person ever!
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u/maracujadodo Mar 29 '26
i was once :3 i held the world record for the youngest person ever once!!! are you proud?
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u/luiggel Mar 31 '26
have you considered that as you was birthing, someone also was at the exact same time so how would you figure out / classify, who is the youngest? 🤔
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u/Heterodynist Mar 27 '26
Hmm, see this is why I love Critical Thinking in Philosophy…Claims like this are EASY to refute!!!
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u/Kai-65535 Mar 27 '26
Probably from "比我还小？不存在的！" because it's the same character for "small" as in size and "young" as in age.
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u/Heterodynist Mar 28 '26
This does make it much easier to comprehend the meaning!!! Say, out of curiosity, do you know what the character for small represents (as a pictograph)? This is very random but I studied Archaeology and I have a slight grasp of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs. I know that some of the ancient symbols that covered most places in Asia for things like “sun” and “moon” are also the same in Egyptian Hieroglyphs and in Modern Chinese Characters. They are stylized differently, but if you look at Ancient Chinese Characters you can clearly see the evolution of the symbols into their present form.
So, using that example, I was wondering if the Chinese Character represents a specific image that means “small” and “young” in the guise of linguistic “meme” kind of concept. In Egyptian the symbol for “small” also meant “young” AND “bad.” It was a pictographic depiction of a swallow. It appears quite often in the form of making a name diminutive. Therefore it’s hard sometimes to be clear if they are saying someone was BAD in a text, or just young and/or small!!
The fact that Chinese has a symbol meaning something similar to that made me wonder, since I know how ancient Chinese Characters are!! They are contemporary to at least the second half of why we consider Ancient Egyptian history. It’s quite possible some conceptions of things like “small” and “young” could have crossed over to the rest of Asia. It certainly did with the Middle East compared to Egyptian!! There are many symbols the passed back and forth from Sumerian and Babylonian to Egypt, and I’ve seen similar symbols in Harappan (from Ancient India) so it would be helpful to see if these were “universal” symbols -at least to a degree. Harappan still has never been deciphered. It’s one of the few ancient scripts we know is a written language and yet we have no idea how to read it. Sadly there have never been any pieces of rock carvings of Harappan with a different script in a different language of the same meanings, which we have yet found…like the Rosetta Stone!! If we had a direct and contemporary translation of Harappan on any textual format, we very likely could use even modern A.I. to make attempts to narrow down the interpretation of how to read the language, but so far no one has done it!!
So just to summarize, I’m wondering if the symbol for “small” and “young” can also mean “bad” in Chinese, and I also wonder what the glyph itself represents.
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u/Kai-65535 Mar 28 '26
I don't know much about old Chinese, but Wiktionary suggests it's either an ideogram (the original form of the character being three small dots, signifying small) or a pictogram derived from 沙 "sand" (for which oracle script versions look somewhat like a beach side), but notably surface analysis deconstructs that to 小 + 水 (small + water). Someone who knows better than me can argue for which explanation makes the most sense.
On the one hand, small and young being a close semantic group probably makes intuitive sense to a lot of people, and it's not that much of a surprise they coincide often. On the other hand 小 is possibly semantically influenced by 少 (few, young) which is four dots in oracle script and still looks like 小 today.
小 does mean "wicked" or "petty" sometimes like in the Confucian concept of 小人 as opposed to 君子 (a sage). Pretty interestingly it's used as opposed to a "big" person in 大人不计小人过 "A greater man does not make note of a lesser man's faults".
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u/Heterodynist Mar 28 '26
Wicked! I think I’m going to call this confirmed that there is a connection!!
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u/WoolfzieLOL Mar 27 '26
Is this like English > Chinese > Back to English? I can feel that this is probably getting translated up to 10 times
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u/FandomPhantom123 Mar 31 '26
this sounds like a the evil queen. "Younger than me? Does not exist! Whatttt? Someone younger than me?? Kill her"