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Author of ๐™Ž๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™œ๐™ง๐™–๐™ฅ๐™๐™ฎ (2019) & ๐˜พ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š๐™จ๐™š ๐˜พ๐™๐™–๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ ๐˜ผ๐™˜๐™ง๐™ค๐™จ๐™จ ๐˜ผ๐™จ๐™ž๐™– (@uwapress, 2025). Chinese characters, writing systems, historical phonology, etc. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753027/chinese-characters-across-asia/

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Published: December 20, 2024 19:14

If you are outside of North America and interested in my book, I've just learned you can place orders with UK distributor Combined Academic Publishers. They are also offering 40% off UW Press titles through January 3 with the discount code UWP40.โ€ฆ

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Published: December 16, 2024 17:36

Working on the Character Locator index for my forthcoming book. Ch = Standard Chinese, C = Cantonese, J = Japanese, K = Korean, V = Vietnamese, Z = Zhuang, E = English #sinography ๐Ÿ€„๏ธ๐Ÿ“š #langsky #linguistics โ€ฆ

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Published: December 10, 2024 07:47

So hereโ€™s a seemingly simple question with a surprisingly complicated answer: How do you say "six" in Korean? As native speakers are well aware and as beginning students of Korean quickly learn, there are at least two ways. 1/ ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท

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Published: December 6, 2024 07:04

Pokรฉmon names provide fertile ground for linguistic analysis. Many are extremely clever and subtle, and yield delightful โ€œah-haโ€ moments when you figure out how they are formed. I find it especially interesting to compare the original Japanese names withโ€ฆ

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Published: December 1, 2024 05:06

Thereโ€™s a stunning variety of third-person singular (3sg) pronouns (meaning 'she / he / it' or singular 'they') across Chinese languages and dialects. Here are a few of them: Mandarin: tฤ Cantonese: keoi5 Taiwan Hokkien and Shanghainese: i Southern Wu:โ€ฆ

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Published: November 25, 2024 06:05

Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered. This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao! What more could you want? โ€ฆ

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Published: November 24, 2024 05:33

Did you know? All three basic Mandarin pronouns have irregular historical developments. More interesting: All three give the appearance of being frozen in time โ€” preserving ancient pronunciations. Letโ€™s check it out! (Reposting a ๐Ÿงต from Twitter here toโ€ฆ

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Published: November 22, 2024 17:43

The @uwapress.bsky.social holiday sale is on! A massive 40% off + free shipping within the US. Use code WINTER24 at checkout. Pre-order by January 3 to get the paperback for $21 instead of $35. Click thru to UW press home page for details. More info onโ€ฆ

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Published: November 17, 2024 08:00

If I can finish proofreading and make the index in time, my new book will come out in January. ๐Ÿ“– I've been working on it for five years so I'm pretty excited that it will soon be a reality. I'd like to tell you a bit about it. 1/16