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Liberate Taiwan
Published: May 2, 2025 10:36
Ignore the super-slow video (if you can! — I watched it a dozen times). Look at what is written on the man's t-shirt. It clearly says: jiěfàng Táiwān 解放台湾 "Liberate Taiwan" At first I thought it was from the point of view of the Taiwanese who wish to…
Neuropolitics news
Published: May 1, 2025 11:45
"Authoritarian attitudes linked to altered brain anatomy, neuroscientists reveal", PsyPost 4/19/2025: A new brain imaging study published in the journal Neuroscience has found that authoritarian attitudes on both the political left and right are linked to…
The burgeoning of Indo-European and the withering of many other languages
Published: April 30, 2025 01:32
"How the World's Largest Language Family Spread – and Why Others Go Extinct." Robinson, Andrew. Nature 641, no. 8061 (April 28, 2025): 31-33. This is a review of the following three books: Proto: How One Ancient Language Went GlobalLaura Spinney (William…
The mathematics of kana vs. kanji usage over time (1879-1968)
Published: April 28, 2025 21:28
In the fourth comment to "Striving to revive the flagging sinographic cosmopolis" (4/26/25), I stated my observation of morphosyllabic kanji usage is that it has been declining over time at the expense of kana and other phonetic elements of the writing…
Best not to buy cheap audio gear
Published: April 28, 2025 17:45
"Superficial auditory (dis)fluency biases higher-level social judgment." Walter-Terrill, Robert, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, no. 13 (March 24, 2025): e2415254122 Significance In recent years, tools such as videoconferencing…
Mangajin
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Published: April 27, 2025 13:12
I am the proud possessor of the complete run of Mangajin (pun for "magazine") from #1-#70 (1988-1997). Mangajin was the brainchild of Vaughan P. Simmons, whom I had conversations with at several meetings of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and…
Striving to revive the flagging sinographic cosmopolis
Published: April 26, 2025 10:32
If we take stock of the sinographic cosmopolis at the end of first quarter of the 21st century, it is evident that it is increasingly moribund. Vietnam has jettisoned chữ Hán for the Latin alphabet; North Korea has switched exclusively to hangul; South…
Topolect literature
Published: April 25, 2025 13:40
If you do a search across the internet for this term, you will find it used here and there. You will even find the extended expression Topolect Literature Movement (TLM), which is traced back to at least the mid-twentieth century. For the lexical…
The beautiful virtue of the United States and Germany
Published: April 24, 2025 00:48
This photograph of a card in a series on "míngrén míngyán 名人名言" ("famous quotes by famous people") is floating around on Facebook: The quotation is by Yàlǐshìduōdé 亞里士多德 (Aristotle). Except for the last five words in black, the English translation of the…
The magnitude of traditional Chinese literature
Published: April 23, 2025 11:52
Two days ago, I received a big package with three heavy books inside. They were three copies of the following tome: Routledge Handbook of Traditional Chinese Literature, ed. Victor H. Mair and Zhenjun Zhang (London: Routledge, 2025), 742 pages. It came…
Latinized Persian
Published: April 22, 2025 10:48
One of my favorite photographs shows Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938) teaching the alphabet to citizens: Mustafa Kemal introducing the new Turkish alphabet to the people of Kayseri, 20 September 1928 Here are some other scenes from that period of language reform…
Battle for Taiwanese, part 2
Published: April 21, 2025 22:43
IA sent me this article (in Chinese) about a new translation of George Orwell's 1984. It begins: Yīngguó zuòjiā Qiáozhì Ōuwēiěr de míngzhù `1984' chūbǎn yuē 75 nián, jìnrì yíng lái shǒubù Táiwén bǎn. Yìzhě Zhōu Yíngchéng shuō, zhè shì tuīdòng `Táiyǔ…
Study Reveals Most Popular American Texting Habits
Published: April 21, 2025 13:37
[This is a guest post by Randoh Sallihall] Analysis of Google search data for 2025 reveals the most searched for texting abbreviations in America. Study reveals most searched for text abbreviations in America: FAFO (254 000 searches) – F–k around and find…
Easter: eggs and rabbits
Published: April 20, 2025 21:04
This morning, as is my wont, I stepped out on my stoop to test the weather. Across the street, I saw children running around picking up eggs that had been hidden in the grass here and there and delightedly putting them in the baskets they held with one…
The multivalence of interjections
Published: April 19, 2025 12:31
Feast your eyes on a small segment of the total number of interjections in English: Aha, Hurray, Oh, Ah, Aw, Ouch, Wow, Alas, Boo, Hey, Oh my God, Ahem, Bah, Cheers, Hmm, Huh, Huzzah, Oops, Yay, Agreement, Amen, Argh, Awesome, Boy…. Interjections may be…