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Saturday, March 29, 2014
"第几" has no English equivalent: a follow-up
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In August, 2012, I blogged that "第几" has no English equivalent . (If you haven't already read it, you may want to take a quick...
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Saturday, March 1, 2014
Joke due to translation: "Oracle bone script" was registered as a software brand by Americans
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On Weibo, the Chinese microblogging web site, there's an article titled "甲骨文的呼唤" (the Call of Oracle Bone Script), where I re...
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Chinese religious language
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A Christian friend of mine introduced me to The Reverend Wang Zhiyong (王志勇)'s translation of The Confession of Faith of the Assembly of...
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Sunday, December 8, 2013
"Modern" and "现代" or "近代"
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The standard translation of the word "modern" into Chinese is "现代" (literally, "present time or epoch"). But ...
Saturday, September 28, 2013
"Thought" and "以为"
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The Chinese word "以为" means "thought", as in "I thought it was Tuesday today" (我以为今天是星期二). There's only on...
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Friday, August 9, 2013
Translation: a case study, "feminism" and “女权主义"
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In a Chinese high school language class, students are taught the concepts of "内涵" ( intension , not to be confused with intention...
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Translation of "computer", "calculator", and others
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Some English words that were created or became popular after 1950's but before late 1990's are translated differently between mainla...
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Incorrect English in a petition to the White House
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I just saw Invest and deport Jasmine Sun who was the main suspect of a famous Thallium poison murder case (victim:Zhu Lin) in China , a pet...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
"主席" (Zhǔxí) was Chairman, is President
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Nowadays, the Chinese head of state, "主席" (Zhǔxí, zhu3 xi2), is always translated as "president", not "chairman...
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Reposting: Bilingualism and mental health
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(Reposting from my other blog ) The January 9 issue of Journal of Neuroscience published an article Lifelong Bilingualism Maintains Neura...
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