Stefan MüllerPaper by Yanru Lu and me about #reduplication in #MandarinChinese is now (pre-)published:
Martin Schäfer#compoundWatch: useful #MandarinChinese compound:
病友 bing4you3 illness + friend: 'friend made while being in a hospital', and also just 'wardmate'
病友 bing4you3 illness + friend: 'friend made while being in a hospital', and also just 'wardmate'
Interesting: #English #inflectionalMorphology on a #MandarinChinese verb (or better Verb-Object construction), even if in meme context: 搬砖 ban1zhuan1 carry + brick 'do hard physical labor' + ing
Probably the fact that Mandarin Chinese also has progressive markers that follow the verb make this easier (?)
#borrowing #loanMorphology
Probably the fact that Mandarin Chinese also has progressive markers that follow the verb make this easier (?)
#borrowing #loanMorphology
@SusanneOpitz I am a linguist mostly interested in semantics, morphology, and the semantics/syntax interface. I nowadays mostly work on #English, other languages I have worked on include #German and #MandarinChinese. Methods range from corpus linguistics/distributional semantics to psycholinguistic experiments.
Interesting language fact of the day: #English "kowtow" /ˌkaʊˈtaʊ/ could, orthography-wise, be pronounced very closely to the current #MandarinChinese pronunciation of its origin word, 叩头 kou4tou4 [kʰoutʰou] (disregarding tone). Compare English "tow" v. 'to draw' with the US pronunciation /toʊ/.
#loanwords #orthography #
#loanwords #orthography #
what's trendingSeize the First Mover Advantage - Andrew Jihi Bustamante and Tom Bilyeu
Saw Jia Zhangke's "Caught by the tides" yesterday (thanks https://www.cineding-leipzig.de/). In Mandarin Chinese it is called 风流一代 feng1liu2 yi1dai4 'dissolute/loose generation', in my view a slightly better fit. Mostly because even the metaphorical usage of 'tide' irritates me given that the main role of water in the movie is played by the Yangtze which in the movie (and perhaps in general) is quite uninfluenced by tides.
Anyways, a great, slow movie :)
Phil. ShapiroJersey Polyglot 2014
Jersey Polyglot 2014
MoebeusWeek 26, 2025: Top album languages found on @wikidata right now.
Mandarin overtakes German and Turkish to become the World's 15th Most Musical Language. 🥳🇹🇼🇨🇳🎉
For the complete list, see https://w.wiki/6TNS
notBread 🏴☠️Watching videos of Americans trying to pronounce Chinese words is confusing. On the one hand, it's nice to see them getting away from controlled media in the US. On the other, they have no idea how to pronounce xiaohongshu and haven't bothered to look it up.
Just for future reference the "x" in pinyin is similar to the "sh" sound, but English doesn't have it. Using an "sh" sound is a better approximation of the sound in Mandarin, rather than the random assortment of sounds that I keep hearing.
[ #XHS #tikTok #xiaoHongShu #pronunciation #mandarinChinese #Chinese ]