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I think there's actually an etymological relationship between the two words
4 days agoUnderstood...
"Grave" stones -
"Engrave" Play on words. :-)
At my age (79) it's all "gravy." :-)
Five minutes difference in when the pagoda photos were taken. Just different angle and light and auto corrections on the color
5 days agoOh. No, I was referring to the blue sky instead of the earlier ghastly gray pall.
5 days agoThe Chinese really like putting words on stones. There are lots of non gravestone things it could be. However, it says 之墓 which is "the grave of," so....
5 days agoNot those kind of swastikas
5 days agoOh, well this is much more hopeful. I can quit holding my breath now. Maybe it was just the time of day and not the time of man.
1 week agoIronically, I just read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about headstones that are now ( 100 years later) being “seen” on a wall near a park only because they were put in “backwards”.
1 week agoUsed to be a gravestone... You can tell by the "engraving?"
:-)
Correct! To twist it a bit more, using olde 1960s American slang, I dig etymology! :-)
4 days ago