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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Eastern philosophy and Western capitalism clash:
Student A: Yeah, I’m taking this East Asian Civ class, we’re learning about Daoism.
Student B: Oh, like the Dow Jones?
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@Anonymous Chuang Tzu went daon on me the day the dow crashed. SWIJDT?
@Anonymous What is “SWIJDT”
@Anonymous See What I Just Did There
@I think you mean Kind of a Daoner?
@Tracy Jordan Wordplay!
@Anonymous It’s spelt Tao though : /
@laozi I really daot that you’ve seen a good transliteration.
@China enthusiast It’s usually written ‘Taoism’, but that’s based on an older phoneticization system (the same one that gives Mao Tse-Tung rather than Mao Zedong, as we would call him today). Likewise, using the modern system that word would be written ‘Daoism’.
@Anonymous anyone know when the general selection appointment times go up?