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 […]