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We celebrated the solar New Year a day early, by having some friends over for 打邊爐. One of our guests is a learned 老師 . He mentioned a quirk in Chinese languag... -
cheat, meet, and see.MP3 - YV-150 How do you say 呃人 in English? To cheat : must involve unjust enrichment at others expe...
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One Foot in the Grave Intuitively, ESL students would guess, correctly, that the expression means a person is dying. Is there a more imaginative way than 死咗半 or 死咗大...
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I am old enough to remember the days, back in the 1950’s, when the terms 老公 and 老婆 were considered crude (粗俗) by 斯文 folks. By the 1990s, years before I moved back ...
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The Riot Act The word “act” here is not related to the performing arts. In this context, with the capital A, it is a legal term. Originally, it meant a proposed law...
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We’ll Cross that Bridge When We Get to It is 到時先算喇 in Cantonese. For those of us at or near retirement age, and with extensive exposure to Am...
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Q, cue, queue the /ı℧/ sound = 蕭 – S + K the /ju:/ sound = letter U, or YOU Q, cue, queue  ...
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Thanks to Bobby Jr., and Thoughts, for their suggestions of the following: Encore / ’a:ŋkכ:(r) / Tony = 韜–ny, not 通-ny Sony = ...
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NOUN TOWN GOWN ...
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Somebody hold me back.... I am out of control.... I can’t stop... Maybe I’m letting Broomhead get to me with her exposé of bad English on the part of high l...











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