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/2008/12/29/initialismism/ http://www.linglish.net/2008/12/29/initialismism/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:11:40 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=363 It shouldn’t be any different in other metropolises, but in Hong Kong, one of the major activities people have during the Christmas holiday is shopping in big, grand and sometimes grandiose shopping malls. Certainly these malls have been getting more or more thoughtfully designed and decorated, but at the same time, another trend seems to have emerged [...]]]> http://www.linglish.net/2008/12/29/initialismism/feed/ 0 http://www.linglish.net/2008/07/26/an-experimental-experiment/ http://www.linglish.net/2008/07/26/an-experimental-experiment/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:17:23 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=16 After reading about a phenomenon in a book, which I found particularly interesting, I decided to do a small experiment to verify it. The methodology I employ is to make use of a flash game to perform a simple psychological test. Before I proceed to explain on the phenomenon, you may want to first try [...]]]> http://www.linglish.net/2008/07/26/an-experimental-experiment/feed/ 7 http://www.linglish.net/2008/07/11/arent-they-too-irregular/ http://www.linglish.net/2008/07/11/arent-they-too-irregular/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:27:34 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=22 http://www.linglish.net/2008/07/11/arent-they-too-irregular/feed/ 1 http://www.linglish.net/2008/05/30/zipping-words/ http://www.linglish.net/2008/05/30/zipping-words/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 18:02:35 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=6 http://www.linglish.net/2008/05/30/zipping-words/feed/ 0