Oral what?

Language Log 2013-04-05

Summary:

Geoff Wade sent in the following banner:The first thing I noticed was that the banner had something to do with Yīngyǔ 英语 ("English") and that it was announcing some sort of dàsài 大赛 ("big contest"). Then I saw the simple, yet conspicuous, character kǒu 口 ("mouth") twice — right in the middle of the [...]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4552

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

04/05/2013, 09:58

Date published:

04/05/2013, 09:10