http://www.linglish.net Where English meets Linguistics Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:19:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 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