I'm with stuh, now. I don't get it!
Ori, your friends on A2K never laugh"in our sleeve" over your efforts to learn English and understand our cultures. For you see we have never really made an effort to learn your language and understand your culture. That's why it is so exciting to have you posting. Now we can learn more about your world.
I was only joking with Phoenix, Panzade. I've said in another post -- "Of course I'd like to expose all defects in my writings to English mavens, so as to get good advices from them. Because they were all so kind. '
Of course thanks for your kindness.
iaiau, I'm a little confused by 'thoughtway'. Do you perhaps mean 'mindset' or something similar?
I am amused, Fortune.
Indeed the word thoughtway is rarely used in English. I googled it and only got 140 items in total listed there, and many of them were in Chinese web pages.
The definition of the word thoughtway, according to a dictionary in my hand - the dictionary is also one and only dictionary that adopted the word, is:
Method of thinking.
Yes, the definition is much similar to "mindset" which is defined as: An inclination or a habit.
'Mindset' is indeed more widely used in English. 'Thoughtway' is not incorrect, but it is outdated in terms of usage.
Ah, I see. It seems my dictionary has let me down. I am most disappointed, it is the first time that has happened. I have not heard the term used before, an uncommon occurance outside of a philosophy thread, so I merely assumed that iaiau intended to describe a 'way of thinking'.
I shall now proceed to familiarize myself with this term (I'm rather obsessive about things like this).
