Last week the Washington Post published an op-ed by Michael Anton arguing that the United States should do away with birthright citizenship—the principle that anyone born in the United States is a U.S. citizen, even if their parents are foreign-born noncitizens. The op-ed has attracted a lot of attention from people on both the left […]
"Can Chinese Write Their Own Language?" | ASIAN BOSS (7/19/18)
I've had guests from Taiwan for the past few days. Two of them are mother and daughter, both primary school teachers. The mother is a nationally known teacher of Taiwanese language who received special awards from two presidents, Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian. She is very proud of the beauty of the Taiwanese language and […]
[This is a guest post by Bathrobe.] Recently I travelled in Inner Mongolia (China) where I picked up a few books in Chinese, Mongolian (traditional script), and English. As the books were getting heavy, I decided to offload them by posting them to Beijing for later pick up. The lady at the post office was […]
Just called a taxi from the Graduate Club at 155 Elm St. in New Haven, CT. The service was completely automated. I did not speak to any human being. The taxi arrived within one minute, before I could walk out to the street! It was uncanny! The taxi driver had no contact with a human […]
Following up on "Clarification by misnegation" and "More double negative jokes", here are some tweets I missed:
Further brilliant discoveries of Chinglish by Harry Asche, who several weeks ago sent us the dashboard prayer wheel featured in "Spiritual high tech" (7/14/18): I.
Dave Holmes, "To Whom Did Donald Trump Say 'I Love You, Too' During Wednesday's Cabinet Meeting?", Esquire 7/18/2018: Listen: the crazy bullshit is coming fast and furious these days. Weird moments that would have permanently stained whole careers only years ago are allowed to sail right past, because we lack the mental bandwidth to really […]
Brad Bannon, "Trump effect: Republican support for Russia has doubled", The Hill 7/18/2018 [emphasis added]: Times have changed and so have Republican attitudes towards Russia. The GOP is no longer the party of Ronald Reagan. The Grand Old Party is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump Organization. NBC News just released a survey […]
Jonathan Smith just saw this sticker in 798 Artzone in Beijing: