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Zhōu Yǒuguāng on a Beijing talk show; 4=2 in Beijing; Pinyin and topolects; schadenfreude

Everyone knows that literacy in Mandarin means hour after brutal hour of memorizing and practicing a script whose design clearly shows the influence of sadistic genius. Here are a couple of favorites from the torture rack: two pairs of characters that have [...]

¶ Posted 01 June 2008 † syz § DeFrancis § beijing-r § běijīnghuà § education § pīnyīn § érhuàyīn ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged:

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