“Making People Clear in Mind” Better Than “Setting People Thinking”
Zhang Min
Humanities College , Hebei University,Baoding 071002 China
Abstract: In 2002 State Language Commission released “The Mother Stock Sorting Table of different style words ”,in which the phrase “to set people thinking” and “to make people clear in mind ”,two Chinese four-character phrases different from the last character but same with the pronunciation ”xing”, was treated as a pair of congruent different style words ,and the phrase “set people thinking” was recommended as the proper morphology. It’s worth discussing. This paper tries to analyze the pronunciation and the meaning of the Chinese word “xing” , and derivative the different point of view.
Key words: to set people thinking; to make people clear in mind; be aware of; awaken to