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Tie Guangyin 铁光阴

May 26, 2015May 26, 2015 tommazanec

I recently sent a photograph of a menu over to Victor Mair, who commented on it for Language Log. It’s about how the famous Tiě Guānyīn 铁观音 (Iron Avalokiteśvara) variety […]

 China  Language Log, Linguistics, tea, velar nasals, Victor Mair  Leave a comment

Stupid Flyer

October 14, 2014October 15, 2014 tommazanec

After a long day of classes at Fudan University, I came home to find a flyer hanging in a baggie on my door. Its intermixing of Chinese characters, pinyin, and […]

 China, Translation  Language Log, Linguistics, memes, Obama, Pinyin, transcription, Victor Mair, Yao Ming  Leave a comment

An Awesome Canto-Mandarin Ad, or, 最牛的廣告

August 20, 2014August 20, 2014 tommazanec

At Language Log, Victor Mair answers another one of my questions on Chinese linguistics, this one about an advertisement combining Mandarin and Cantonese. Check out the post here.

 China, Translation, Uncategorized  Cantonese, Language Log, Linguistics, Mandarin, Pinyin, Victor Mair  Leave a comment

A ‘World without Thieves’ World

May 16, 2014 tommazanec

On Language Log, Victor Mair addressed a question I had about the difference between tiānxià 天下 and shìjiè 世界, as seen in a poster asking the question “天下無賊的世界?” (“A ‘World […]

 China, News, Translation  A World without Thieves, Linguistics, Victor Mair, 世界, 天下  Leave a comment

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