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Paper by Yanru Lu and me about #reduplication in #MandarinChinese is now (pre-)published:
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Paper by Yanru Lu and me about #reduplication in #MandarinChinese is now (pre-)published:
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Paper by Yanru Lu and me about #reduplication in #MandarinChinese is now (pre-)published:
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Paper by Yanru Lu and me about #reduplication in #MandarinChinese is now (pre-)published:
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Paper by Yanru Lu and me about #reduplication in #MandarinChinese is now (pre-)published:
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#compoundWatch: useful #MandarinChinese compound:
病友 bing4you3 illness + friend: 'friend made while being in a hospital', and also just 'wardmate' -
Interesting: #English #inflectionalMorphology on a #MandarinChinese verb (or better Verb-Object construction), even if in meme context: 搬砖 ban1zhuan1 carry + brick 'do hard physical labor' + ing
Probably the fact that Mandarin Chinese also has progressive markers that follow the verb make this easier (?)
#borrowing #loanMorphology -
Interesting language fact of the day: #English "kowtow" /ˌkaʊˈtaʊ/ could, orthography-wise, be pronounced very closely to the current #MandarinChinese pronunciation of its origin word, 叩头 kou4tou4 [kʰoutʰou] (disregarding tone). Compare English "tow" v. 'to draw' with the US pronunciation /toʊ/.
#loanwords #orthography # -
Week 26, 2025: Top album languages found on @wikidata right now.
Mandarin overtakes German and Turkish to become the World's 15th Most Musical Language. 🥳🇹🇼🇨🇳🎉
For the complete list, see https://w.wiki/6TNS -
Watching videos of Americans trying to pronounce Chinese words is confusing. On the one hand, it's nice to see them getting away from controlled media in the US. On the other, they have no idea how to pronounce xiaohongshu and haven't bothered to look it up.
Just for future reference the "x" in pinyin is similar to the "sh" sound, but English doesn't have it. Using an "sh" sound is a better approximation of the sound in Mandarin, rather than the random assortment of sounds that I keep hearing.
[ #XHS #tikTok #xiaoHongShu #pronunciation #mandarinChinese #Chinese ]
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Week 51, 2024: Top album languages found on @wikidata right now.
Some action at the bottom of the chart, Mandarin overtakes Cantonese for the last spot.
For the complete list, see https://w.wiki/6TNS