This week
- Bench
- 3 March 2027 Reconstruct the entry reconstructing the entry
- Slides
- Open the deck
- Specimens
Fuck the duck until exploded
The merged character secondaryFuck Goods
The dried goods aisle secondary
Simplification merged 乾 (gān, dry) and 幹 (gàn, to do, and in some registers to do to somebody) into the single form 干. A lookup keyed on that form inherits every sense at once and has no context with which to choose.
What comes out of that table is printed on supermarket aisles and restaurant menus, and it is a legible description of the table. The senses are there, in an order, and the order is a decision somebody made about frequency in a corpus that was not this one.
Outline#
- the merger, and what it did to a key
- three outputs, one entry: the reconstruction, done live
- 出口 again — the same failure with no simplification involved anywhere
- what a lookup explanation cannot account for, which is next week’s problem
Teaching team
- Aurel Marchetti — tutor