Renacido Posted May 14, 2011 at 04:18 AM Report Share Posted May 14, 2011 at 04:18 AM I see that several users here are using Michael A. Fuller's An Introduction to Literary Chinese. Does anybody know what the asterisk before some entries in the lesson vocabularies mean? For example: *伐 fā [lesson 1]*遽 jù [lesson 4] *鬻 yù [lesson 5] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Posted May 16, 2011 at 09:45 PM Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 at 09:45 PM Nobody knows. I asked this same question once in the old thread we have about Fuller's book (see comments #13, #15 and #17), but we were unable to find any explanation. Neither the book explains what the star means nor is there any identifiable common feature shared by those starred characters. My guess is that it may have been some internal code used while the book was being written that made it past the proofreading stage by mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristotle1990 Posted May 17, 2011 at 12:09 AM Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 at 12:09 AM Why can't you just email the guy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renacido Posted September 26, 2011 at 12:06 AM Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 at 12:06 AM I just came back to this forum... I sometimes just forget to check threads I opened in new forums I join. Why can't you just email the guy?That is actually a sound idea. I'll e-mail him right now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Renacido Posted September 26, 2011 at 04:30 AM Author Popular Post Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 at 04:30 AM Hi guys, mystery solved. Here's Michael Fuller's reply (posted with expressed permission): You're entirely right that nowhere in the book do I actually explain what those asterisks are for. In part this is because I never produced a "teachers' copy": for my own students I say that they need not remember these characters, or in the case of fa, the use of the character. They are simply too rare to spend too much time on. However, I don't want to prevent other teachers from having higher standards and requiring those characters/usages as well.(By "fa" he means the 伐 fā 'to boast' example I posted in post #1.) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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