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/2010/03/08/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/ 2 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/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/ 14 http://www.linglish.net/2008/09/15/so-many-negative-prefixes/ http://www.linglish.net/2008/09/15/so-many-negative-prefixes/#comments Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:36:58 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=48 http://www.linglish.net/2008/09/15/so-many-negative-prefixes/feed/ 24 http://www.linglish.net/2008/07/24/why-is-probible-not-possible-and-possable-not-probable/ http://www.linglish.net/2008/07/24/why-is-probible-not-possible-and-possable-not-probable/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:52:19 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=36 http://www.linglish.net/2008/07/24/why-is-probible-not-possible-and-possable-not-probable/feed/ 1