Creeping English in Chinese

Language Log 2017-01-24

Summary:

Many years ago, I predicted that — due to the exigencies of technological change and the increasing tempo of life — China would willy-nilly gravitate either toward romanization of Mandarin (and the other Sinitic languages) or the gradual adoption of English for many aspects of written communication (e.g., business, science, medicine) because they are perceived […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=30522

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Tags:

bilingualism

Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

01/24/2017, 10:42

Date published:

01/23/2017, 16:08