The origins of language

I get my Chinese piecemeal, where I find it. Oddly, that seems to work better for me than sitting down with a textbook and vocab lists, or even hanzi books. Give me a word with a context and it is mine for life, or at least the next five minutes. (This is why I *still* have to review my Toyo kanji in Japanese, twenty years after I first started learning them.)

So as I work my way through 千秋一夢 I am so pleased to come across a whole phrase I know: 不可一世, which of course I see all the time on mauvecloud's icon.
( On reading unknown languages )