BYD — the look and the sound
Language Log 2023-02-16
Summary:
Yesterday, Charlie Munger, the 99-year-old billionaire Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, declared that the Chinese company, BYD, was beating Tesla in the electric vehicle (EV) market. I had never heard of BYD, so I asked my students from mainland China what "BYD" meant. They all seemed to consider the apparent initialism as though it were […]