Regulate.
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind?
Control?
Forced compliance?
Shackling the invisible hand of nature’s innate wisdom and balance?
In English regulate often times connotes control.
In Chinese 調理, often translated as regulate has a slightly different meaning.
It means to bring balance to a system.
It’s less about forcing, and more about encouraging.
Less about control, and more about [...]
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It has been a curiosity to me for some time now.
How those of us in the West. Those of us grown and cultured to fierce independence and the holy grail of individually have created a medicine of off the shelf, one size fits all.
Meanwhile, our brethren in the East, with their intense focus on [...]
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Reading and translation are two completely different skills.
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If only translation were as easy as the multiple choice test of ordering off a Chinese menu.
As simple as translating words, and having the grammar and meaning neatly tag along.
As logical as math with it’s A+B=C.
No….translation is not just about words, it’s about how you string all together [...]
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