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发表于 2007-9-18 22:55
It could be so, but I was already in junior high then. Indeed there's a similar phenomenon in English compared to our 紙鷂 instance. I also used 紙鷂 to refer to a kite when I was young in Mandarin Chinese.
In English, the original meaning of "kite" refers to a kind of hawk and the meaning of paper kite is developed from that "eagle" sense. Could this be a coincidence only?
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