[Ads-l] "Ants on a log" -- Request from a freelance writer

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

> On Jul 21, 2019, at 10:44 PM, Dave Hause <dwhause at CABLEMO.NET> wrote:
> 
> I'm fairly sure that those two phrases would be the same characters in Chinese - neither nouns or verbs are inflected for number.
> Dave Hause
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Arnold M. Zwicky
> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2019 1:15 PM
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> Subject: Re: "Ants on a log" -- Request from a freelance writer
> 
> i wrote:
> 
> the usual English translation of the name of the dish is
>   ant climbs tree
> 
> an interesting typo for:
>   ants climb tree


of course the Chinese is the same; my point was about the customary English translation -- which, being customary, is an English lexical item on its own.

arnold

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