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Normally, parasitic worms in muscle will migrate back into the intestines when a host dies, being the place where the worms have both the best chance of survival for the longest time within the carcass by feeding on feces, and the best chance of being ingested by a successor host, since scavengers normally begin eating a carcass from the softest point of entry into the dead body, the anal orifice, which is attached directly to the intestines (and feces). Therefore, if the worms are still in the meat, it is an unmistakable sign of freshness…maybe that is why formerly sashimi was sliced so thinly…yet, those crafty parasitic worms often roll up into little balls of「ringworm」indicative of one of evolution's finest hours. Warning: fully masticating live worms may not crush any worm eggs, so please enjoy your worms with sufficient care. Further warning: not all parasites are sufficiently large to be seen by the human eye, let alone sufficiently large to be chewed by human teeth.
「Physical condition caused by slippery meat with sheep」seems to be referring to parasites worming their way into one's penis meatus while tupping the animal's anus. Probably not a 'best practice.'
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: ringworm
Japanese EDRDG: ringworm
Unihan extended: ringworms
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
Japanese vocabulary: 17 entries
Chinese usage: 8 entries
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