RUN = wrong

Language Log 2022-09-29

Summary:

Last spring, when Shanghai was in the midst-of a harsh, months-long lockdown, so many people were thinking of running away from the city that they even developed a "RUN-ology" (rùnxué 潤學, i.e., how to escape and go abroad), where "RUN" is a Chinese pun for English "run". Original meanings of Mandarin rùn 潤: wet; moist […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=56385&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=run-wrong

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Tags:

multilingualism

Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

09/29/2022, 23:30

Date published:

09/29/2022, 16:36