well-traveled snowclone

[Victor Steinbok]

  An old business snowclone involves the alleged danger/opportunity or
risk/opportunity duality in a single character. Another version that
made it into Tom Wolfe's novels is that the Chinese word for "crisis" is
composed of two symbols--for danger and for opportunity.

Language Log had covered this before:

http://bit.ly/c9HFXl

with a nod to a more direct debunking

http://bit.ly/cWaoWs

This morning, on Colorado Public Radio, Tom Tancredo invented yet
another version:

"Chinese symbol for opportunity and problem is the same symbol."

Tancredo is not exactly the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, but I
thought I'd pass it along.

     VS-)

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