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Originally Posted by TakuanSoho
Since the character for medicine means the same in chinese as in japanese, if a chinese person wrote the symbol I know what he means even though I wouldn't understand it if he pronounced it. Where as if I wrote "medicine" down, a German would not understand what I meant unless he understood English.
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You may be amazed to see many languages, usually in written form do bare silimarities....not knowing any eastern languages I speak only of latin and european....clear on to american english..........apathecare in germany is identifiable in france and switzerland, netherlands, austria, belegium and luxembourg....all mean pharmacy...and the word does have roots in english as well. Just on observation, having been to all these countries.....