in Chinese, crisis = opportunity?

[lordsmurf]

In a local race, the written published speech by a candidate mentions that "in Chinese, the word of crisis is the same as opportunity". Knowing how stupid people are with sayings and cliches -- not to mention e-mail forward chain letters that are already flagged as crap on snopes.com -- I called bullshit and looked it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_word_for_%22crisis%22

I'm not voting for this dumbass.
If this person cannot do simple research, why would I trust him or her to do a good job with anything else?

[Xylob the Destroyer]

HAH! He probably saw it on the Simpsons when Lisa told Homer that the Chinese use the same word for crisis that they use for opportunity - his reply was "mmm crisitunity".

If it's on TV it must be true!

[lordsmurf]

I've always like when people make up words. Like "embiggens". LOL!

[guns1inger]

". . . . . . . . it's a perfectly cromulent word"

[Xylob the Destroyer]

My newest is obtongular. My wife hates it when I make words up, but I recently caught her using obtongular.

[lordsmurf]

Obtongular sounds like it could be a synonym for amoeboid.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

nah, more like rectangle + oval.

[lordsmurf]

I thought that was already covered by rountangular

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

Eggtangular?