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  Chinese takeaway becomes sensation for its savage responses to customer reviews

Alice Cheung, 50, who tries to reply to the majority of reviews for her Oriental Express takeaway in Pudsey 'personally', pulls no punches when responding to some of the “sillier” reviews

A Chinese takeaway boss has become an internet sensation for her savage responses to disgruntled customers.

In one exchange the restaurant owner told a dissatisfied client: "We are good but mind reading the stupid is not one of our skills."

Business owner, Alice Cheung, 50, who tries to reply to the majority of reviews “personally”, pulls no punches when it comes to responding to some of the “sillier” reviews.

Her Oriental Express eatery in Pudsey, West Yorks, holds a five-star rating on Just Eat and most of its 148 reviews praise the food.

But those who have dared criticised the restaurant have faced the full wrath of the owner, Leeds Live reports.

'Red Moon'

By BENJAMIN PERCY
Reviewed by JUSTIN CRONIN

In Benjamin Percy's novel, the misunderstood lycanthrope population is being persecuted. And they're not going to take it anymore.

  Fourth Gold For London 'Weirwolf'

LONDON—Britain's David Weir (20) is cheered on by flag-waving supporters as he passes the Houses of Parliament on his way to winning the men's T-54 Paralympic marathon on Sunday. The wheelchair athlete from London, known as "Weirwolf," collected a remarkable fourth gold medal after winning the 800 meters, 1,500 meters and 5,000 meters during the past week. Oscar Pistorius of South Africa, cemented his status as the icon of the 2012 Paralympics by winning gold in the 400 meters—the final track event in the Olympic Stadium.

Birthplace of Memorial Day? It’s Complicated
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON


Memorial Day originated after the Civil War, an effort to reconcile after a nation’s most savage years. But where?



His interest in the development, or evolution, of social institutions culminated in Morgan's most famous work, Ancient Society (1877). He recognized three stages in the cultural evolution of man: savagery, barbarism, and civilization. Savagery and barbarism are divided into lower, middle, and upper stages. These stages are defined in terms of means of subsistance or technological inventions. Thus, savagery was preagricultural, barbarism was marked by pottery and agriculture, and civilization arose with the invention of writing.

Also in This Week's Book Review

'The Sacred Book of the Werewolf'

By VICTOR PELEVIN
Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER Victor Pelevin projects a bitter philosophy of modern times through the voice of a shape-shifting nymphet-narrator.

「小妖」（nymphet）一詞，源出意指「蛹」或「妖女」的「nymph」

lycanthrope

Pronunciation: /ˈlʌɪk(ə)nˌθrəʊp/

Definition of lycanthrope

noun

• a werewolf.

Origin:

early 17th century: from modern Latin lycanthropus, from Greek lukanthrōpos 'wolf man' (see lycanthropy)

werewolf
also wer·wolf n.
A person believed to have been transformed into a wolf or to be capable of assuming the form of a wolf.

[Middle English, from Old English werewulf : wer, man + wulf, wolf; see wolf.]

WORD HISTORY The wolf in werewolf is current English; the were is not. Werewulf, “werewolf,” occurs only once in Old English, about the year 1000, in the laws of King Canute: “lest the madly ravenous werewolf too savagely tear or devour too much from a godly flock.” The wer– or were– in wer(e)wulf means “man”; it is related to Latin vir with the same meaning, the source of virile and virility. Both the Germanic and the Latin words derive from Indo-European *wīro–, “man.” Wer– also appears, though much disguised, in the word world. World is first recorded (written wiaralde) in Old English in a charter dated 832; the form worold occurs in Beowulf. The Old English forms come from Germanic *wer-ald–, “were-eld” or “man-age.” The transfer of meaning from the age of humans to the place where they live has a parallel in the Latin word saeculum, “age, generation, lifetime,” later “world.”

• 号[wéərwùlf | wíə-]
• 
  

[名]（複 -wolves）（伝説・迷信の）狼(おおかみ)人間.

［古英語werewulf （wer男＋WOLF）. werはラテン語vir（男）から. △VIRILE］

savage

savage

/ˈsavɪdʒ/

adjective

1. 1.

   (of an animal or force of nature) fierce, violent, and uncontrolled.

   "packs of savage dogs roamed the streets"

   Similar:

   ferocious

   fierce

   wild

   untamed

   undomesticated

   feral

   predatory

   ravening

   Opposite:

   tame
2. 2.

   (of something bad or negative) very great; severe.

   "the decision was a savage blow for the town"

   Similar:

   severe

   crushing

   devastating

   crippling

   terrible

   awful

   dreadful

   dire

   catastrophic

   calamitous

   ruinous

   mortal

   lethal

   fatal

noun

1. 1.

   a brutal or vicious person.

   "the mother of one of the victims has described his assailants as savages"

   Similar:

   brute

   beast

   monster

   barbarian

   ogre

   demon

   sadist

   animal

verb

1. (especially of a dog or wild animal) attack ferociously and maul.

   "police are rounding up dogs after a girl was savaged"

   Similar:

   maul

   attack

   tear to pieces

   lacerate

   claw

   bite

   mutilate

発音

━━ a. 野蛮な; 荒れはてた; 猛烈な; 無作法な; 〔話〕 かんかんに怒った.
get savage with　…にひどく腹を立てる.
━━ n. 蛮人; 無作法者; 残忍な（人）.
━━ vt. 痛めつける; 酷評する; かみつく.
sav・age・ly

　━━ ad.
sav・age・ness　━━ n. 未開, 残忍.
sav・age・ry 　━━ n. （普通pl.） 残忍; 蛮行.

 

barbarian

発音

━━ n. 未開人, 野蛮人; （ことばの通じない）異国人; 無教養な人.
━━ a. 野蛮な, 未開の; 異教徒の, 異邦人の.
(bär-bâr'ē-ən)
n.

1. A member of a people considered by those of another nation or group to have a primitive civilization.
2. A fierce, brutal, or cruel person.
3. An insensitive, uncultured person; a boor. See synonyms at boor.

[French barbarien, from barbare, barbarous, from Latin barbarus. See barbarous.]

barbarian bar·bar'i·an adj.
barbarianism bar·bar'i·an·ism n. 

 barbarous
(bär'bər-əs)

adj.

1. Primitive in culture and customs; uncivilized.
2. Lacking refinement or culture; coarse.
3. Characterized by savagery; very cruel. See synonyms at cruel.
4. Marked by the use or occurrence of barbarisms in spoken or written language.

[From Latin barbarus, from Greek barbaros, non-Greek, foreign. See barbarism.]

barbarously bar'ba·rous·ly adv.
barbarousness bar'ba·rous·ness n.

barbarism

(bär'bə-rĭz'əm)
n.

1. An act, trait, or custom characterized by ignorance or crudity.
2. 1. The use of words, forms, or expressions considered incorrect or unacceptable.
   2. A specific word, form, or expression so used.

[Latin barbarismus, use of a foreign tongue or of one's own tongue amiss, barbarism, from Greek barbarismos, from barbarizein, to behave or speak like a barbarian, from barbaros, non-Greek, foreign (imitative of the sound of unintelligible speech).]

USAGE NOTE   There is a significant difference in meaning between barbarism and barbarity. Both denote some absence of civilization, but the word civilization itself has several different senses, one the opposite of barbarism, the other the opposite of barbarity. On the one hand civilization may refer to the scientific, artistic, and cultural attainments of advanced societies, and it is this sense that figures in the meaning of barbarism. The English word barbarism originally referred to incorrect use of language, but it is now used more generally to refer to ignorance or crudity in matters of taste, including verbal expression: The New Yorker would never tolerate such barbarisms. On the other hand, civilization may refer to the basic social order that allows people to resolve their differences peaceably, and it is this sense-that is, civilization as opposed to savagery-that figures in the meaning of barbarity, which refers to savage brutality or cruelty in actions, as in The accounts of the emperor's barbarity shocked the world.

barbarity[bar・bar・i・ty]

• 発音記号[bɑːrbǽrəti]

[名]

1 [U]残忍, 非道, 残酷(cruelty)；[C]残虐［非道な］行為.

2 [U][C]（文体・趣味・言語などの）荒削り, 粗野, 生硬.

civilization
━━ n. 文明; 開化, 教化; ((集合的)) 文明国（民）; 快適な文化生活.
⇒civilize