On how English messes with even the kids’ Mandarin
After months of exile in Minneapolis, Siberia, the nominal proprietor of Beijing Sounds now has concrete plans to return to the main studio location in beautiful suburban Shàngdì in the northwest outskirts of the capital city. The mood surrounding this semi-permanent move, to take place around the [...]
On good dictionaries, good bachelor dishes, the free dinner offer
The ABC dictionary is wrong. At least the version on my Pleco dictionary. At least according to Yuèmǔ U. (aka Grandma). At least the entry on spinach, which would have us pronounce bōcài rather than grandma’s very clear rising tone on the first syllable: bócài.
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On cooking your own shrimp YU style; free dinners in exchange for linguistic data; idiolects and other non-languagesIf you could map a man’s acquired vocabulary to a human body, there is no doubt that in the case of your correspondent, for Mandarin, the representative human body would be that of a three-week-old infant, with the [...]
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