My tea rosetta stone

Apr 01, 2011 Last reply: 15 years ago 2 Replies

This is an exercise in Google Docs

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as much as anything else.



When I come across tea terms I add them to my rosetta stone file with a simple editor. The newest entries go on top. I show the characters, pinyin and accompanying note. It is freeform enough so I can add my to the end of the line to indicate my teas. In this case the 3 entries at the top came from using Google Books and finding colony tea terms.



I have over 2000 line items of chinese,japanese,korean, and russian. When I come across a tea term it is very easy to search the file to see if it already exists. For other reasons I might put the tea term somewhere else in the file. I wished I had dates for the entries. One of these days I might show all of my work over the decades.


Jim


yes it is amazing what we can do, harvest, save, sort, information, i recommend using excel for sorting your things, with a cut and paste and search and machine translate we can self-learn so so much... i wonder what it will be like for future historians looking back at us...it is great that they will have lots of archives to look at, but it might be a sea of info and very hard to sort out.

I maintain the file on Linux with a editor where besides the normal string search I can use Regular Expressions.

I occasionally comb the old Chinese dictionaries on Google Books for tea terms.

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For "A Chop Of Tea" in an 1847 dictionary I came up with ¯ù¸­¦r¸¹. These old terms rarely make it to the Internet.

Jim

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