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Jack Reacher makes no sense, and to understand why, you need to understand British English

(1) THE THOUGHT PANZER PROBLEM. [Item by Doctor Science.] “Netflix blockbuster ‘3 Body Problem’ divides opinion and sparks nationalist anger in China” reports CNN. A Netflix adaptation of wildly popular Chinese sci-fi novel “The Three-Body Problem” has split opinions in China and sparked online nationalist anger over scenes depicting a violent and tumultuous period in the

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Xi Jinping's Empire of Tedium Appendix LVIII 蠅營狗苟 In 2024 it will be a hundred years since Lu Xun published 'The Shadow's Farewell' 影的告別, a darkly mesmeric prose-poem about the dilemmas of the age. The somnolent narrator of the piece rejects the compromises demanded of everyday tedium, while

Mark  Liberman is a linguist,  with a dual appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, as Trustee Professor of Phonetics in the Department of Reply to a linguist who made comments on my related NCR article. I maintain that the biblical account is consistent with Mesopotamia; not a worldwide interpretation.

Latest news on the Arcturus variant, a new Covid-19 variant that has been identified in India

A recently-coined word to describe a certain kind of linguistic mistake or confusion, of which the classic example, for which its named, is calling an ...

Last week, the Communist Party of China issued a short statement: The Communist Party of China Central Committee proposed to remove the expression that the President and Vice-President of the People's Republic of China "shall serve no more than two consecutive terms" from the country's Constitution. As analysts were quick to point out, that seemingly…

How did the controversial term go from middle-school slang to verboten? The answer lies on the other side of the Atlantic.

Authorities delete lines from 'March of the Volunteers' posted by Shanghai residents fed up with forced COVID-19 isolation