Trope: Chinese word for crisis is composed of elements danger and opportunity (maybe 1937) or 1934

[Victor Steinbok]

  The post referenced in the LL post I cited in the original post in
this thread (I may have given both links) makes a definitive claim that
this is not true (although the transliteration is wei-ji, plus some
diacritics). Victor Mair also states that the claim cannot be true.

VS-)

PS: Here's the link: http://bit.ly/cWaoWs

On 10/24/2010 3:36 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>
>>> "Wei-Chi"— Danger Plus Opportunity THE annual report of one of our Boards this .. As the Chinese word for "crisis," it is rightly declared to be more expressive than our English word. It is composed of two>  >  >  >  words, "wei" (danger), and "chi" (opportunity).
> Is this in fact true?  Or does this go into the folder next to the remarkable number of words in Eskimo for snow?
>
> GAT

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