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Pentalingual street signs in Kashgar
Screen shot from this video (at 0:34) about an express delivery service in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China:
Some citrus terms in Sinitic: today and in the past
From the time I started learning Chinese more than half a century ago, I had a hard time lining up the many Chinese terms for different types of citrus with the corresponding words in English. For example, I always wanted to call oranges "júzi 橘子", but it is technically (botanically) more correct to call […]
Left-looking eyes
In the Dumbing of Age strip from a few days ago, Amber has been traumatized by the violence associated with a kidnapping, which has left one of her friends in a coma:
Historical dialectology and the Poetry Classic
[This is a guest post by John Carlyle written in response to the following comment by E. Bruce Brooks to "Similes for female pulchritude in an ancient Chinese poem" (7/1/20): The formation of the Shr* corpus is currently under serious study, and it can be said with some certainty at this preliminary stage that this […]
Accidental filmic poetry
Tonight we're rewatching The Good, The Bad and The Ugly in honor of Ennio Morricone, the composer of its iconic score, who died today. Deediedeedledee nwah nwah nwaaaaahhh And I've just had a thought about the title that turns on the quite different interpretations of the-Adj constructions in English and Italian, which I mainly know about from […]
Barge bilge
The CCP government is dragging a large barge through Victoria Harbor to celebrate their takeover of Hong Kong and the imposition of the hated National Security Law on the former semi-autonomous region. On one side: (Source)
GFHG, SDGM
Hong Kong opponents of PRC / CCP totalitarian rule can read the title of this post. Many of them can also read this geometric typeface:
Candida Xu: a highly literate Chinese woman of the 17th century
Throughout history, female literacy in China was extremely low. It was only in the 20th century that sizable numbers of women were able to read. An exception to this general rule was Candida Xu (in Chinese called Xǔ Xú Gāndìdà, 许徐甘第大, Xǔ Xú shì 许徐氏，Xǔ Gāndìdà 许甘第大，Xú Gāndìdà 徐甘第大, and Gāndìdà 甘第大 [source]). The double […]
George Whitefield
More than a decade ago, I posted about the oratorial skills of George Whitefield: "If I could only say 'O!' like Mr. Whitefield", 5/15/2009. He was an itinerant preacher who played an indirect role in the origins of the University of Pennsylvania, whose original 1740 home was a building constructed in an unsuccessful attempt to […]
Better said in Cantonese
A banner carried in the streets of Hong Kong on July 1: Today, the Hong Kong protesters carried a banner in the march, which says #WeReallyFuckingLoveHK.Even though #HongKong is dead after the passing of #NationalSecurityLaw, we still love our city dearly and will not give up fighting.(Pictures from online and yellow_illugulu on IG) pic.twitter.com/AuSPQPNtYF — […]