http://www.linglish.net Where English meets Linguistics Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:19:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.linglish.net/images/logo.png http://www.linglish.net 144 166 Where English meets Linguistics http://www.linglish.net/2010/03/05/china-china-china/ http://www.linglish.net/2010/03/05/china-china-china/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:44:54 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=731 For long there has been an article (original article in Chinese) circulating on the Internet which propagates the idea that the English word China is a pejorative term and should instead be replaced with the demonym Zhongguo. The author believes that China is given its name because of its porcelain, or china. He proceeds to argue that we [...]]]> http://www.linglish.net/2010/03/05/china-china-china/feed/ 1 http://www.linglish.net/2009/01/03/buy-a-pie-for-the-spy/ http://www.linglish.net/2009/01/03/buy-a-pie-for-the-spy/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:13:21 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=483 During the holiday I spent much of my time on a local discussion forum, reading and discussing topics regarding the English language. One question that was raised again and again by local students was this: Why does the ‘p’ in spy sound somewhat different from the ‘p’ in pie, and in fact, for Chinese speakers, the [...]]]> http://www.linglish.net/2009/01/03/buy-a-pie-for-the-spy/feed/ 6 http://www.linglish.net/2008/12/05/tense-and-tensibility/ http://www.linglish.net/2008/12/05/tense-and-tensibility/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:58:47 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=245 http://www.linglish.net/2008/12/05/tense-and-tensibility/feed/ 2 http://www.linglish.net/2008/10/11/i-very-like-it/ http://www.linglish.net/2008/10/11/i-very-like-it/#comments Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:27:21 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=78 http://www.linglish.net/2008/10/11/i-very-like-it/feed/ 3 http://www.linglish.net/2008/08/04/even-though-vs-even-if/ http://www.linglish.net/2008/08/04/even-though-vs-even-if/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:29:09 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=24 http://www.linglish.net/2008/08/04/even-though-vs-even-if/feed/ 1