Biscriptalism on Starbucks cups, part 2

Language Log 2017-09-16

Summary:

In "Impromptu biscriptalism on a Starbucks cup" (9/8/17), we encountered a Starbucks cup from Shenyang, northeast China that had the following handwritten notation on the side:  wài's 外's ("foreigner's").  I referred to the "'s" as impromptu because I thought that it was essentially a one-off phenomenon.  Nonetheless, I considered the "'s" to be linguistically significant […]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=34495

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

09/16/2017, 06:54

Date published:

09/16/2017, 06:38