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Modern Chinese simplified a language that had been in use for thousands of years, rendering some characters nonsensical or even contradictory.
“Military tactics on paper” is a four-character idiom from ancient China originally used to describe the fate of a foolhardy Chinese general.
We speak so effortlessly that most of us never think about it. But psychologists and neuroscientists are captivated by the human capacity to communicate with language.
