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TSU I ･ ZU I ･ DA
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「In everyday life, iodide is most commonly encountered as a component of iodized salt, which many governments mandate. Worldwide, iodine deficiency affects two billion people and is the leading preventable cause of mental retardation.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodide 2013-10-31 ]
Two billion people is 2 of every 7 people alive on Earth today as potentially retarded mentally…think about that the next time you are in a crowd, or at your job, or driving on a crowded expressway. Source of the English terms 'dead weight' 'thick as a brick' and 'as smart as rocks.' Feeling fatigued and weak are the most common symptoms of iodine deficiency, along with trouble remembering and learning, feeling cold, among other warning signs.
「Rocks, testicles dangling and flaccid」also describes HYPOTHYROIDISM and iodine deficiency, with infertility as a major symptom:「Iodine is a mineral found in some foods. The body needs iodine to make thyroid hormones. These hormones control the body's metabolism and many other important functions. The body also needs thyroid hormones for proper bone and brain development…」
[ https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iodine-Consumer/ 2020-01-27 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: iodide; to weight
Japanese EDRDG: weight
Unihan extended: weight
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.
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