The Chinese characters for “snail” read as “slime cow”If he means the characters 蝸牛, the most common word for snail, he's wrong. While 牛 ("niú") does mean bovine (bull or cow) 蝸 ("wō" in China, "guā" in Taiwan) means "snail". And anyway what's the significance of what it means in Chinese?
Wednesday, January 26
“Snail” does not mean “slime cow”
Tim Flannery claims
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