Language Log: Google me with a fire spoon
Despite its simple and straightforward Chinese vocabulary, this sign in Dalian (a large city in northeast China) is badly translated into English: (As usual, you may click on the photograph to...
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The Telegraph argues that "the inability to speak a host country's language […] is a very reasonable requirement of any immigrant": Inability to write the host country's language, on the other hand,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: From X-X to X-X-X
Today's Sheldon takes Contrastive Focus Reduplication up a notch: [Tip of the hat to David Craig]
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