Home party
Recently, Tong Wang's husband told her that he would not be home for dinner because he was going out with friends to this place:
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Peking colloquialisms
Here is a photograph of a paper placemat Tong Wang found in a restaurant serving Beijing dishes that is named "Sea Bowl Restaurant" (Hǎiwǎn jū 海碗居):
Metaphorical limitations
A few years ago, I noticed an apparent boom in "Peak X" (see also "'Peak X' abides" and "Peak friend"), and reported concerns that the peak bubble might have burst ("Peak peak has apparently passed"). But a scan of recent news stories suggests that the peak X construction has established itself solidly in the journalistic lexicon. […]
Lexical orientation
In "Lexico-Cultural Decay", 10/9/2018, I examined Jonathan Merritt's Google-ngram-based argument that "traditional sacred speech is dying in the English-speaking world" ("The Death of Sacred Speech", The Week 9/10/2018). Today, as promised in that post, I'm returning to his neo-Whorfian conclusion: Now, words have fallen out of usage at every point in history. Language is always changing, […]
Visual depiction of vowel elongation in Japanese
From Alex R: なんだこの斬新な表現は pic.twitter.com/oSGILG8Hso — センス無い (@N0n5ense) March 24, 2017
Lexico-cultural decay?
Jonathan Merritt, "The Death of Sacred Speech", The Week 9/10/2018: America boasts more Christians than any other country on planet Earth. But you wouldn't know it from listening to us. According to Google Ngram Viewer data, a searchable database of millions of printed works stretching back 500 years, most of the central terms in the […]
Dangerous entrance
Photo taken by Ori Tavor in Beijing at the Bank of China next to Hepingmen subway station:
Spacing within words
Speaking of spaces between syllables (but, as in this case, not all syllables), as we have been in recent posts, this photograph of a sign in China was sent in by Paul Midler: But the lettering is very nice!
X & X
Perhaps modeled on the rise of big brands like Abercrombie & Fitch, Crate & Barrel, etc. (though in our own history going back much further), but a bit different, in Asia, we have Nail & Nail, Lock & Lock, Bagel & Bagel, and so forth. Below are photographs of two shops in Asia with "X […]