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  • Chinese 110A Can Be Awesome

    Mengzi 1A.1. Yes, indeed. No, this is not a geeky plug. It really is cool. Perhaps under the influence of my Chinese name, I have always thought as Mengzi did on this matter. Though as a pre-Christian philosopher h…

  • "Speak Good Singlish"

    And somebody thinks I'm a terrible ang mo (I checked Google. There were more hits for "ang mo" than for "ang moh" or "ang mor". So there.). Check this out, then. Wah lau, I don't speak Singlish, but even I know "Don't w…

  • English and Your Health

    I got an email to the linguistics department: Try to practice your bilingual skills to maintain a balanced and long life. It's a matter of probability after all. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart …

  • Book Meme (26 Feb.)

    Grab the nearest book.Open the book to page 103.Find the fifth sentence.Post the text of (inclusively) the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" …

  • My English Idiolect

    My English speech isn't "ghetto" enough for me to actually be from the Bay Area. I just don't pretend to be from Oakland. I mean, could you imagine me ever doing that? And people think it's illegal for me to say "fo' sho…

  • Urbana '06 Testimony in Chinese, Edited for Xanga

    上個禮拜我參加了URBANA2006宣教大會。URBANA2006宣教大會沒有打動我，是上帝自己打動我的心。三年一次的URBANA宣教大會，多年來幫助了很多的大學生和年青人投身回應神的大使命。大會的講員都很好， 包括「標竿人生」的作者RickWarren。另外一個講員向我挑戰，不要「直把杭州作汴州」。其實杭州是哈蘭，是亞伯蘭進迦南地前呆了很多年的地方。汴州才是迦南地。她說，『上帝仍然要全地充滿他的榮耀，讓全地所有家庭都蒙福...…

  • Fresh Precision

    Système International d'Unités I think I like my dad's proposal for going metric (SI) in the U.S.: Introduce a bill for a 10% national sales tax (or even 1%) on anything sold. Under this bill, exemption is given to any…

  • Best-Ever Supreme Court Split

    According to Jonathan Starble, writing in the Legal Times,As one of its final acts last term, the U.S.Supreme Court issued Kansas v. Marsh, a case involving theconstitutionality of a state death-penalty statute. The …

  • English Plus?

    I have never understood monolingual Americans' reluctance to learn (or acquire at an earlier age) foreign languages. On the other hand, I also do not favor systems under which immigrant children learn an effete, impoveri…

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