Orthographic-crosslingual pun

Language Log 2022-06-25

Summary:

Xiaowan Cai received this picture from a friend of hers who is on exchange from Oxford University at Kyoto University.  Everything in all four languages on the sign looks pretty normal, except that there is a not easily detectable, extraordinary gaffe — or ingenious tour de force — in the Chinese. I will go through […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=55085&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=orthographic-crosslingual-pun

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Gudgeon and gist » Language Log

Tags:

orthography

Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

06/25/2022, 20:01

Date published:

06/25/2022, 18:18