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A Lunar New Year With a Name That’s a Matter of Opinion - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2015...
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Knew it was about sheep-goat-ram before I even clicked over. All these years and it was never really an issue. This year? Holy crap, I've never seen people fight online over the name before. There was a TV show I watched. One subber used 'goat' another used 'ram'. The show averaged 7 comments per episode. This time there were 237 comments with dozens of people I had never seen before. - Anika
I always thought I was a goat, based on the placemats at the restaurant :-) I admit the sheep were confusing me. - Shannon - GlassMistress
County library used both: https://twitter.com/LACount... - Anika
Metro used all 3: https://twitter.com/metrolo... - Anika
I'll just go with "the year of the Caprinae subfamily." - Brian Johns
I see reference to all three walking up Grant Avenue through Chinatown. (Which today was an extra special flavor of cray-cray...) - vicster.
Google has a goat... Check out @google's Tweet: https://twitter.com/google... - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
"“In Western culture, things are subdivided into more and more detailed categories, and that’s why Europe has still not been unified after so many years,” he continued. “If you want to say whether it’s goat or sheep, then why not also ask whether it’s a ewe or a ram? But Chinese culture has an inclusive spirit and stresses harmony.”" -- this reminded me of how I am frequently confused by my mom's use of Chinese, which she excuses by saying the language itself is inherently inexact compared to English. - Andrew C (✔)
"Chinese culture has an inclusive spirit." Which is why they built a giant wall to keep people out? :P - COMPLICATED MR. NOODLE
Year of the fiber mammal. *nod* - Hedgehog
^*sagenod* - Michael W. May
Chinese people have an inclusive culture /of Chinese people/. - Andrew C (✔)