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sa to i ・ mi mi za to i
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「If you consider risky sexual behavior a nonissue, remember this: Over one million people around the world acquire a sexually transmitted disease (STD) every day. '…We often hear the words herpes, gonorrhea, and chlamydia in a comedic context, but anyone who has an STD knows it's no laughing matter,' Superdrug explained. 'It's something you may have to live with for the rest of your life. It's scary. It's embarrassing. It's often confusing. But if you're one of those people, you're not alone. Not even close.' 」
[ https://www.medicaldaily.com/pulse/std-prevalence-across-world-how-std-statistics-compare-across-time-and-space-325574 2017-03-16 ]
「One in two sexually active persons will contract an STI by age 25. …Researchers estimate that at least 80% of sexually active people will have an HPV infection at some point in their lifetime. CDC data for 2013–2014 show that about 42% of men and 40% of women aged 18-59 had genital HPV at that time. …About 1 in 8 people aged 14-49 in the U.S. has genital herpes. …Symptoms of genital herpes often go unnoticed. Most people with genital herpes—close to 90%—don't know they have the infection. Globally, researchers estimate that about two-thirds of the population under age 50—more than 3.7 billion people—are infected with HSV-1. Some 140 million people aged 15-49 are infected with genital HSV-1, primarily in the Americas, Europe and Western Pacific. …In 2015, rates of the three most common reportable STIs—chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis—reached a record high level. The approximately 1.5 million reported cases of chlamydia represent the highest number of annual cases of any condition ever reported to CDC. …Young people ages 15 to 24 years old accounted for 65% of chlamydia diagnoses and 50% of gonorrhea diagnoses in 2015.」And so on.
[ https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/health/health2/documents/std-trends-2015-cdc.pdf 2019-12-04 ]
Listening carefully to what others are whispering about your condition, and then quickly making the necessary adjustments. Ears, and soldiers in battle, that are in a hurry and agitated will be itching to learn new things, or, wanting to stay alive and unhurt, respectively. Each will exhibit intelligence and cleverness. Soldiers tend to become fast learners also after witnessing the guy beside being skewered by a lance, broadsword, or cluster grenade…those sexually active tend to become fast learners after witnessing the guy beside being skewered by social diseases and corkscrew demons feasting on pecker and brain stem.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: quick at hearing; wise; clever; sharp-witted; intelligent; acute
Japanese EDRDG: wise, fast learner
Unihan extended: intelligent, clever, bright
Used within names (nanori)
あきら ・ さとし
Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that),
representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created.
If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system!
Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles?
Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today.
Sex had no shame in ancient China.
Why would it?
But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?
No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else.
This site describes glyph meanings, not people.
These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect.
The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language?
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Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better?
Or could they have been worse?
By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs,
you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon.
This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.
Primal elements
Chinese usage: 17 entries
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聪- Glyph.10909
- Strokes: 17
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