The dictionary as suspect

SLOP8217 · Week 2

Simplification merged 乾 (gān, dry) and 幹 (gàn, to do, and in some registers to do to somebody) into the single form 干.

Reading a lookup table backwards from three of its outputs, and the character merger that makes it possible

Fuck the duck until exploded

The merged character secondary

Fuck Goods

The dried goods aisle secondary

What comes out of that table is printed on supermarket aisles and restaurant menus, and it is a legible description of the table.

Outline

  • the merger, and what it did to a key
  • three outputs, one entry: the reconstruction, done live

Outline

  • 出口 again — the same failure with no simplification involved anywhere
  • what a lookup explanation cannot account for, which is next week’s problem

At the bench on Wednesday

Reconstruct the entry

Wednesday, 3 March

Material
three outputs from one lookup
Operation
reconstructing the entry
Leaves
a dictionary entry someone else can break