Say, amw, can you tell me...

[fflo]

... what the Hong Kong activists I was reading on twitter this morning mean by a "handfoot"?  I take it's a name from the characters that make up a word/concept that has something to do with being a resister, activist, person in the streets, I dunno.  It involves handwriting, somehow.  And is something they're proud to be.

Googling, even with "-disease" (to get rid of all the hand-and-foot disease hits), hasn't done me any good.  With expressions in English it usually does it to throw in "expression", or be careful with the q marks.  Maybe this one isn't an actual expression so much (at least yet), tho, vs. sort of a play on words.  Or I guess it'd be a play in words.

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[amw.livejournal.com]

On the mother thing, it does seem unfair that she's the default target of insults in Chinese. Then again, in English we say "motherfucker" as well, and it's almost gotten to the level of usage that we don't even really think about it as having anything to do with mothers per se, it's just another curse word. I suppose "son of a bitch" and even "bastard" is related. I think most languages i've learned are like this... except Dutch. In Dutch, i remember most insults being related to disease for some peculiar reason.