Language Log: Our Taiwan
From Jason Cox (with additions and modifications by VHM): In Taiwan, one often comes across efforts at using zhùyīn 注音 ("phonetic annotation") to hint to readers that a Hoklo Taiwanese reading of the...
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Several people have sent me this entry for the "No word for X" files — "When is it rape?", The Economist 11/15/2013: In Urdu there is no word for rape. The closest direct translation is "looting my...
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