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Reuters Isaac Stone Fish With More on Zuckerberg's Chinese Language Show
"Yes, I could give a 30-minute Chinese-language speech much better than Zuckerberg’s. But I will never be able to satisfy the request to do so in front of millions of people."
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Reuters The Surprising Geography of Everyday Talk
A familiar voice in a new location
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So, Where Do You Live? What Do You Do?
By Deborah Fallows
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2 Reasons to Have Watched the Pre-Opening Night Sochi Broadcast
"For Russians, if our hockey team wins, nothing else will matter. And if they lose, nothing else will matter."
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Robert Gates at Texas A&M, c/o Aggie Insurgency As We Switch From Superbowl to Sochi ...
When in doubt, try French.
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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library SOTU in 8 Thought Drops
The first seven are in different ways encouraging; number eight, less so.
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SCPRT Dadgum! Katy, Bar the Door! Speaking Your Mind in South Carolina
by Deborah Fallows
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Reuters 'Springbok, Cleared for Landing': More on the Language of the Skies
By Deborah Fallows.
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China, The Atlantic, and the Foibles of Big Data, All in 1 Post
"Mr. Serving Dishes" comes to San Francisco and offers American manufacturers new hope.
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Seth MacFarlane Is Big in China
These wacky foreigners. Sometimes you can even understand what they say!
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'The French Tongue Isn't Only Famous for Kissing'
Oooh la la!
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Greetings of 'the Festive Season'
The benefits of learning a foreign language: Australian English dept.
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Rectification of Names, 鸿海 Division
A new Chinese company that you have to worry about? Not exactly.
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How to Say Xi JINping? Think Bobby JINdal
What the paramount leaders of China and Louisiana have in common.
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Clinton: The Corpus Callosum of Politics
Choose your metaphor for the 42nd president: brain part or radio personality
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Why Did English Stop Changing? Let's Blame the Book of Common Prayer
Why is Shakespeare's language relatively easy to understand, and Chaucer's very difficult?
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Rhythm, Repetition, and the 'Book of Common Prayer'
The surprising connection between 'Wayne's World' and a 16th century English archbishop.
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Unsung Heroes of the Olympics: Ted Robinson
Hmmm, where is this NBC announcer really from???
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Chas Freeman on Why People Say 'Beizhing'
It should be easy for Westerners to say Beijing, but American announcers (especially) keep saying Beizhing. This doesn't "matter," but it's interesting, at least to me.
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Crowdsourcing a Translation Question
'China in the Clouds' and other translation possibilities
