Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022!
The last two months of 2021 have been all kinds of tough, but luckily we are now finally in 2022. Happy New Year, everyone! I hope whatever unhappiness of yo...
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Unusual pronunciations in pop songs
It’s been a long while since I last updated my blog, but here I am! I remember last time it was still in winter, but now it’s already halfway through summer....
Happy “Niu” Year and semi-loan neologisms in Chinese Internet slang
This is my first post of 2021, so first of all Happy New Year! And Happy “Niu” Year in advance to my Chinese-speaking friends too, since 2021 is a Year of th...
My blog is one year old!
I started blogging last August. Now it’s August again and I can proudly announce that my blog is one year old 🥳! In the past year I wrote fifty-four blog pos...
First post of 2020
It’s been quite a while since I last updated my blog, and we’re now already two months into 2020 and one month into the Year of the Rat (kung hei fat choy!)....
Goodbye 2019, Hello 2020!
Today is Dec 31, the last day of 2019 as well as the last day of the past decade. Tomorrow we’ll be entering a new era, at least physically, and I hope many ...
My science communication experiences
“So what is linguistics?” This is a question I have been asked many times, both by academics from other disciplines and by friends and relatives outside acad...
Why are apples so beloved (linguistically)?
Many years ago, probably when I was in grade six or seven, I accidentally overheard the following snippet from a family conversation. The speaker was the wif...
My first post: Why blogging?
I had mulled over the idea of opening a blog for a long time before finally taking action. The problem was that every time I had got very close to actually d...