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/2010/03/08/nothing-left-is-right/ http://www.linglish.net/2010/03/08/nothing-left-is-right/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:23:50 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=768 I read a joke on Facebook, a witty play on words: My left brain has nothing right, My right brain has nothing left. The wit obviously lies in intentionally confusing two pairs of homophones, namely left as a direction and left as the past participle of leave, and right as a direction and right meaning proper and correct. [...]]]> http://www.linglish.net/2010/03/08/nothing-left-is-right/feed/ 1 http://www.linglish.net/2008/11/15/babylon-is-fallen/ http://www.linglish.net/2008/11/15/babylon-is-fallen/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:17:45 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=125 ♪♩♫ Joy to the world  The Lord is come… ♫♩♪ Wait, wait. The Lord is come? Isn’t there something wrong? First, we know that come cannot be in the passive voice here, as come is an intransitive verb, it does not have an object, which basically means it cannot have a passive form. On the other hand, if it [...]]]> http://www.linglish.net/2008/11/15/babylon-is-fallen/feed/ 4 http://www.linglish.net/2008/10/22/so-many-nationality-suffixes/ http://www.linglish.net/2008/10/22/so-many-nationality-suffixes/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:51:01 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=87 After posting my other article So many negative prefixes, I received very positive feedback and many readers apparently found the article interesting and useful. Indeed, these little affixes (prefixes and suffixes) can be puzzling when they are similar in meaning but nevertheless non-interchangeable. That makes people ask why they are what they are: is there [...]]]> http://www.linglish.net/2008/10/22/so-many-nationality-suffixes/feed/ 10 http://www.linglish.net/2008/08/29/more-on-the-centrifuge/ http://www.linglish.net/2008/08/29/more-on-the-centrifuge/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:53:50 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=38 http://www.linglish.net/2008/08/29/more-on-the-centrifuge/feed/ 1 http://www.linglish.net/2008/06/03/never-have-i-noticed-this/ http://www.linglish.net/2008/06/03/never-have-i-noticed-this/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:50:49 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=34 http://www.linglish.net/2008/06/03/never-have-i-noticed-this/feed/ 2