Kazunari Hirano wrote:
Hi,
I hope it is not occurring with OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta2 but due to
rendering issues or fonts problems, the OpenOffice.org installer and
applications sometimes showed garbage, garbled characters or squares.
We ja community call them "tofu."
Tofu is such a familiar food and dish for us.
:)
Recently I encountered a wording "tofu-eating communists."
I googled it and hit many. Is it a popular wording in English?
I have been wondering what matters, and how "tofu-eating" can be an
adjective to "communists."
Tofu matters? Eating tofu matters? Or their belief matters?
Suppose, there are communists who eat tofu and who do not.
What is the difference between them?
There are conservatives, liberalists, capitalists ... who eat tofu and
who do not.
Thare are Christians, Israms, Buddhists, Animists (I like animism :)
)...., who eat tofu and who do not.
What is the metaphor for "tofu-eating"?
:)
Thanks,
khirano
I think you mean euphemism. Nice sounding words and phrases that are
used instead of a less appealing words or phrases. For instance, "cat
food", instead of "not fit for human consumption". I hope this helps.
