Archive for Language and food
September 2, 2018 @ 10:12 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Language and food , Lost in translation , Phonetics and phonology
From a menu in a restaurant in Oxford, Ohio:
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August 8, 2018 @ 3:44 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Language and food , Lost in translation
In this article , we have the following peculiar menu items:
餐蛋治 Meal egg rule
腿蛋治 Leg treatment
奶油多 Cream more
華田 Hua Tian
新界油菜 Rape in the New Territories
净面 Wash the face
加底 With the bottom
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July 10, 2018 @ 12:33 am· Filed by Victor Mair under Language and food , Lost in translation , Signs , Writing systems
Photo taken by Bathrobe at a Teppanyaki restaurant (currently undergoing renovation) in Qinhuangdao (a coastal port city in northeastern Hebei province):
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June 29, 2018 @ 11:03 am· Filed by Victor Mair under Language and advertising , Language and business , Language and food , Language and politics
This just in from Mark Metcalf in Beijing:
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June 26, 2018 @ 3:42 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Language and food , Names
Eating establishment near Baruch College in New York City:
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May 28, 2018 @ 8:47 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Etymology , Language and food , Names , Translation
Sign in the window at Green Pepper, a Korean restaurant at 2020 Murray Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA:
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May 27, 2018 @ 11:32 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Language and advertising , Language and food , Language and the law
Is nothing sacred?
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May 12, 2018 @ 9:06 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Language and food , Semantics , Writing systems
Nathan Hopson spotted this "Cool Guy" t-shirt on Facebook:
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April 22, 2018 @ 11:00 am· Filed by Victor Mair under Language and food , Names
Yuanfei Wang, who sent in this photograph of a menu from a Chinese restaurant called Chef Jon's (Chú wáng 厨王) in East Hanover, New Jersey, refers to it as a rèdiǎn 热点 ("hot spot"):
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April 7, 2018 @ 10:33 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Language and advertising , Language and food , Multilingualism , Writing systems
David Langeneckert thought that I "might find this mashup of languages interesting", and indeed I do!
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March 26, 2018 @ 9:32 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Language and culture , Language and food , Lost in translation
The following YouTube presents "25 Crazy Things You’ll Only Find In Chinese Walmarts". If you have 4:14 to spare and want to know what special sorts of things are sold in Chinese Walmarts, you can watch the whole video. If you're pressed for time, then skip to 3:13, which is what I'll be discussing in this post.
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January 22, 2018 @ 6:35 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Found in translation , Language and food
Valerie Hansen gave me the following package:
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