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....
Recent posts
Some 1000-year-old doodles… and some thoughts on Classical Chinese teaching in the 21st century (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this post I wrote about an interesting Weibo hashtag I had seen, which was about some animal doodles on a 9th-century Chinese manuscript. Then I...
Some 1000-year-old doodles… and some thoughts on Classical Chinese teaching in the 21st century (Part 1)
Yesterday I saw a trending hashtag on Weibo (the Chinese Twitter): #一千年前小朋友写的字, which translates as “characters written by kids from 1000 years ago.” I click...
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...
The syntax of emoji? (originally published on CamLangSci)
This post was originally published on CamLangSci in May 2016. I repost it here (with some reformatting and slight modification) because CamLangSci seems to b...