“Tatoeba, which I've mentioned over at Annals of Wu, is a site that allows users ...”
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“The Arabic language has a long history in China. Before there was pinyin using the ...”

“Just found this on CNN Go. It's an article called "Take a stroll through Shanghai's ...”
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“Porfiriy of the New Dominion directed me to a tweet sharing a page written in ...”

“Somewhere between Xietu Road and Zhaojiabang road you'll find Islam Street. The name in Mandarin ...”
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“There was an email I received recently, about which I posted, asking about tones and ...”
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“I recently received am email asking a simple but not unimportant question about the xiao'erjin ...”

“Josh of Far West China has a post up called a Pictorial History of Kashgar's ...”

“A friend recently appeared to me in Google Talk form, with the following link from ...”

“Jabal al-Lughat's Lameen Souag has just posted on Manuscrits arabes et berbères du Fonds Roux. ...”

“It's not official, but the latest project with which I'm involved is now up in ...”

“I woke up this morning to find an email from an Imam in Sarajevo. ...”
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“Boston.com has a good article up on Ajami at the moment. I'm not sure we ...”

“A while back I was complaining about the lack of Arabic support on Apple iPods. ...”

“I've moved into an apartment with a few friends and a total of three dogs. ...”
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“it's occurred to me that the reason the things i want to be available aren't ...”
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“i sometimes worry i'll become one of those guys who is known for starting but ...”

“two great posts at language log this week and one at languagehat on the pronunciation ...”

“There's a post over at LanguageLog called Perso-Arabic and Sinitic Literacy that's worth checking out. ...”

“a few months back i met a person named yan, 闫. it's not a name ...”
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“xinhuanet has a few photos up recently announcing the opening of the oldest hand-written qur'an ...”
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“the other day i was with a group of three adults here working on some ...”
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“i have to admit i'm fairly skeptical of traditional chinese medicine. the first time i ...”
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“sorry for the neglect being suffered by the blog. my dog (yes i know. dogs ...”
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“this one kills me. i was having a discussion the other day the 56 official ...”
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“i have not, it turns out, been doing the job i thought i was doing ...”
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“"i'm so gonna blog about this..." -@jason_schok so check this out. a while ago i ...”
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“i'm not a translator. i'm not by any means proficient enough in chinese to converse ...”

“it's no secret that i'm a google earth whore. their streetview feature which i stumbled ...”

“over at the wu blog i wrote a post about a hiphop group here in ...”

“wait what?i hate to blog based on flabbergastedness but here goes. someone told me that ...”

“back in december i put up a short glossary if islamic terms in chinese and ...”

“if you're reading this, you've probably heard of the blog Islam in China. it's a ...”

“i wrote this on december 29th and never posted it. after reading a post at ...”

“among other things, a post over at tang dynasty times has gotten me thinking about ...”

“the new blog is up over at http://www.bjshengr.com/wu/ graciously hosted alongside beijing sounds and echoes ...”

“well it's done. the dvds are bought, the books are downloaded and the ipod is ...”

“i posted a picture earlier of a phrase in changzhou hua as viewed through praat, ...”

“YR Chao (赵元任) wrote a book called 《北京,苏州,常州语助词的研究》 back in 1926 that i was hoping ...”

“i mentioned this before but i'm in the middle of writing up an article on ...”

“i'm in the middle of writing up a quick script to convert between ULY and ...”

“i like to think that by being a mac users i'm given a few extras ...”

“in a post dating, well, three hours ago, syz over at beijing sounds left a ...”

“feeling quite strongly these days that it's only worth learning vocab one can immediately apply, ...”

“it's an unfortunate position, that of aspiring to be, simultaneously mind you, a modern ascetic ...”

“the fixations continue. i'll keep it short.jeremiah of jottings from the granite studio tweeted a ...”

“like the constant snowballing that is the rest of my life, i haven't been able ...”

“bruce humes (who you may recall i previously directed you to for his interview w/ ...”

“as mentioned earlier, i'm trying to get my arabic back up to speed. i studied ...”

“while messing around on google books i came across manchu: a textbook for reading documents ...”

“attention: if you are arriving here from the forum at uyghuramerıcan·org, please see the final ...”

“back in 2006 just after i got back from my first trip to china i ...”

“really this should be called "go to school."pronouns in written chinese:in written chinese, there are ...”

“回教词汇مسرد الاسلامية الصينيةthis is intended to be a useful collection of phrases used by muslims ...”

“i've recently come upon a problem that though not entirely unheard of in my time ...”

“as i mentioned in my last post, i'm working on a semi-comprehensive glossary of the ...”

“i'm not under any impression that we have a definite truth in the realm of ...”

“today is eid al-adha, a major holiday in islam. without getting into the faithy details, ...”

“widget #2, a quick search front end for nciku.com.this is much simpler than the adsotrans ...”
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“i've recently put together a dashboard widget for the services provided by adsotrans and popupchinese.com. ...”

“i lied. it's another post on colours.i heard a good explanation on the various characters ...”

“about a year ago my friend casey was on myspace looking for a trace of ...”

“today is an exceptionally nice day and as such warranted a walk around the city. ...”

“first a reminder. i'm only a linguist of the amateur variety. while it's ...”

“last colour post for a while. i mean it. i found this page that ...”

“my girlfriend got hit by a van. actually the van didn't so much hit her ...”

“when passing independent bookstores in china or abroad it's a pretty safe bet that i'll ...”

“today in a conversation the usual prejudices against uighurs as pickpockets and ne'er-do-wells took an ...”

“while i realise this is the third post on colour since the end of october, ...”

“another post about colours, this time of the feline variety. i keep getting into ...”

“while preparing a presentation on ancient and imperial china, i was on wikipedia looking at ...”

“from an email recently received from Bruce Humes: the name of a best-seller (穆斯林的葬礼） here ...”

“i can't think of a time this has ever happened in nanjing, and for that ...”

“i just tweeted this but i thought it worth mentioning here. my girlfriend just came ...”

“so one day early on in my china tenure i'm in this little bar called ...”
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“the blog from a singapore angle has a good post called lu xun on the ...”

“these have come up a bit recently so i thought i'd give them a little ...”

“i've never understood zombies. i think they're as entertaining as the next guy, but that's ...”

“i've had a number of conversations with chinese about colour definitions and how we'd translate. ...”

“over the last couple days i've been trading comments with syz over at Beijing Sounds ...”

“the changzhou dialect is hard. i'd dare say it's a full on infection of ass ...”

“seems i'm posting a lot lately. this time about continuing my linguistic education.since i was ...”

“today's arabic audio word of the day: (مرتديلا) mortadella. what the hell arabic audio word ...”

“狄 dí, an archaic name for an ethnic group in northern china.but what i really ...”

“i appreciate languages and the diversity in language. i'm being completely honest when i say ...”

“偶像 ǒuxiàng, idol. not something i thought i'd learn in chinese. in arabic that would ...”

“when studying arabic (and especially when doing it in the middle east where it's all ...”

“i'm not sure how it happened, but here i am on wiktionary and wikipedia, looking ...”

“while killing time this morning i tuned into northern california's KQED public radio station. they ...”

“trying to look up some high res pictures of "dice". however the search function in ...”

“this happens while waiting for the elevator on my way to work. an older woman ...”

“just had some greasy strung out looking guy follow, nay pursue, me through the local ...”

“read today more companies have been discovered to have tainted baby formula. did a quick ...”

“but not connected really.my computer: today the IT guy at work told me my computer ...”

“took a walk last night and passed a couple stores with funerary wreaths, a large ...”

“asking a chinese kid to make a family tree turns out to be as worthwhile ...”

“back from a trip to the states. settled in changzhou now, forcing myself to try ...”

“i just saw a commercial for nation wide insurance. this couple is getting married. ...”

“from nanjing, a city of about 7 million, to my destination of this weekend. harietta ...”

“saw a commercial just now on comedy central (i'm enjoying directv and dvrs while im ...”

“in the january/february issue of National Geographic there is a photo essay about china. it's ...”

“a conversation. i was on skype, hanging out, talking to some friends in nanjing ...”

“a trip to chicago is in my future.”

“while filling up on the chinese interpretation of turkish coffee, i stopped by the bathroom ...”

“a long time ago i came upon mention somewhere of Sealand, a small offshore platform ...”

“someone told me today that for foreign zoos to have a panda, they much pay ...”

“on the verge of a one year + return to america, cellphones have been on ...”

“i asked my local chinese person what the word in chinese was for shorts. 中裤 ...”

“just heard recently that Nabokov's Lolita is banned here in china. it honestly hadn't occurred ...”

“it's official. july 10th i'm scheduled to leave the country and settle down in yet ...”

“having recently become oddly obsessed with traditional architecture (and having spent about 800rmb on books ...”

“i'm spending the weekend in changzhou. it's the may holiday, which in years past meant ...”

“just when i thought the world of traditional chinese architecture was within reach, doukou hits ...”

“i've been unintentionally collecting books on chinese architecture lately. so far i've got about four. ...”

“i spoke with a friend in passing about the book and how i hadn't quite ...”

“while at 清凉山公园, a nearby park here in nanjing, i found their bookstore hidden in ...”

“one of the things about living in china that really is quite different from my ...”

“blogspot blogs are working. wikipedia is working. all at my apartment in nanjing. the thing ...”

“today i got to go to the nanjing university of medicine eye hospital. she was ...”

“i've gotten a couple chinese girls into playing call of duty 4 on the xbox. ...”

“firecrackers are still being set off. actually today at around 10am i went to the ...”

“it's hard not to be an aspiring sinologist while living here. or any other ologist ...”

“this is mostly me venting, but maybe something good will come out of it by ...”

“i recently got parallels running on the macbook. i thought it might be nice to ...”

“ it may be winter there, but here it's spring. last night was the last ...”

“i redid the wrapping paper on the computer. a little more tasteful this time.”

“i used to do a fair bit of video game playing but primarily as an ...”

“kosovo declared independence on the 17th, promptly recognised by the united states and albania, but ...”

“this is that mosque in downtown changzhou. kinda surprising given the size of the city ...”

“i went to a wedding while in the states. one of the presents was wrapped ...”

“like islam, for example. i went out to buy a wireless mouse today (and settled ...”

“i've decided to just start going to the 咖啡馆 to get online. it's just far ...”

“a lot of computer posts these days. i've been having some issues in bootcamp lately ...”

“just learned a new phrase in chinese, like 2 minutes ago. skype rocks.干妈 － adoptive ...”

“so i've recently installed OpenVanilla on my computer. it is a chinese/asian input method, all ...”

“when i left nanjing for my visit to the states, there had been a light ...”

“at present i've put together three widgets for the OS X dashboard interface. the ...”
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“since i've had this for a long time and for an almost equally long time ...”

“sometime back in late 2003 when i was living in st. louis and life was ...”

“for the most part, these are the blogs i read. there are others i follow ...”

“today i took the day off work and went to zhong shan and saw sun ...”

“2 cute girls just knocked on my door. said "telephone" while making the appropriate hand ...”

“tonight i arrived home from one of the better days of weather in nanjing, entered ...”

“today i lost two of my three jobs accounting for a sizeable portion of my ...”

“one of the things i miss about being in the states is i had a ...”

“i was sitting in KFC taking a break from some much needed shopping today, thinking ...”

“i went back to shanghai to grab some dinner with friends and retrieve a few ...”

“not too long ago i relocated to nanjing.  anybody who has spent some time in ...”

“i came back to china to attend a graduate studies program in shanghai. when ...”

“my morning started with waking up early enough to get to the shanghai railway station ...”

“i bought a train ticket today.  much easier than i had thought it would be. ...”

“i'm moving this week.  i'm not entirely sure where.  out of shanghai.  initially i wanted ...”

“i found a great job in inner mongolia. great pay, good apartment, etc etc etc. ...”

“school starts in 2 weeks.  that is, if i decide to go.  see i'm having ...”

“today i spent the day in the heart of downtown, between the museum in people's ...”

“it was 34° today. at least, at 3pm it was. i've resolved not to ...”

“it is currently 23° outside, based on the thermometer on the bus.  it is supposed ...”

“i made it to shanghai. the heat is pretty bad but nothing compared to how ...”

“so i went to the apple store today to check into some ipod info.  on ...”

“1) the town qatar (pronounced by the film's cast as 'kə•taaar') is shown in the new ...”

“got my ticket to shanghai. what a mess. the sites post lovely prices as low ...”

“upon further inspection, the visa i got is not the visa i was told to ...”

“i had some time to think today as i drove to chicago for the second ...”

“waking up at 530 and heading to the lobby, i met up with 3 other ...”

“this will be where i keep a journal of my weeks in shanghai. i'll try ...”