I imagine both the majority of shipments from Asia, and the majority of shipments to Asia, fall into this "nonsensical" category.

1. "Asia" and "Asian" are different words, which mean different things.

2. There is a dialectal difference specific to "Asian" between England, where Pakistani immigrants are prominent, and the United States, where they aren't.

Where did you get the original 'example' of 沌 / 屯 from? Most people prefer to use examples that they have some kind of personal knowledge of.

> There are other meanings to it. [沌]

Not as many as you might expect. It's (part of) a mythological term referring to the state of the universe before it took the form we can observe today. It has a couple of other metaphorical meanings coming from that, or from traditional sayings related to that.

I see that wiktionary lists 沌がる as an alternate spelling of 塞がる "be blocked" [塞 - obstruct / block / plug], which looks like the closest thing we're likely to find to your earlier claim. Obvious problems using this to support your comment are:

- There's still no "gathering" or "accumulating" sense. (Nor is there an "obstruct" sense of 屯.)

- This is a meaning assigned long after the character came into existence, which means it cannot have informed the construction of the character.

Funnily enough, your first link reports that the author of the book is "Kluwer, Wolters".

Being a real multinational company doesn't mean they've read the books published under their imprint.

Wouldn't that mean that checking the watermark...

(1) Required knowing the prompt used to generate the text; and

(2) was just as expensive as generating the text?

Also... there is no "gather" or "clog" sense of 沌? There's a "gather" sense of 屯...

Huh? How do you pronounce 切?

> And it hints at meaning: bowed weapon, sound, elder brother; but your guess is as good as mine!

Why is "elder brother" a meaning hint if you've already assumed that 哥 is the phonophore?

You appear to be confusing the health of a certain class of employment with the health of the product people in that class used to produce.

Do you think that journalism can't exist outside of a newspaper?

Your timelines are a bit unambitious. There's nobody expecting to make significant progress with a week of work.

At every level of quality, there is more journalism than there was before.

Are you sure this doesn't have more to do with social stigma?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitanni

Why would a connection be relevant? A patent can be blocked by prior art, but that theoretically happens whether you know about the prior art or not.

Knowledge is relevant to how guilty you are over infringing an existing patent, and it's relevant to copyright, but I didn't think it was relevant to patentability.

> Because it's a loan, if you -do- survive employment through the term, guess what, you now have to pay tax on the 'forgiven loan'.

Did you have a point to make here? Do you think you don't have to pay income taxes on bonuses?

The period after the Black Death was characterized by serfs abandoning their family farms for more lucrative options elsewhere. If the family farms needed them, that wouldn't have happened.

The first agricultural revolution would have been one guy planting seeds with the expectation that edible crops would grow. That led to a huge population boom, but not to cities.

The industrial revolution didn't have the mechanics you're imagining. People left the country for cities because work was available in cities, not because it wasn't available at home. Peasants were always in a constant state of having more labor available than the land they worked required, but that push factor never meant the surplus labor could leave. You can't leave without somewhere to go to.