Brain hole

Open Access Now 2017-11-17

Summary:

Neologisms pop up so fast in China that it is almost impossible to keep abreast of them.  Furthermore, it is very hard to figure out where many of them come from.  Some of them are undoubtedly borrowed from other languages, but given such a twist that it is difficult to recognize the original source.  Others […]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=35408

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

11/17/2017, 13:10

Date published:

11/17/2017, 10:07