Tag Archives: language

Bloggers trade insults over a polite pronoun

Posted on 2007-06-14 by Joel Martinsen

During the Red Mansions reality show, a contestant is scolded for using 您. He Dong (何东) defends, and is attacked by Lu Chuan (陆川).

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Cartoon slang, rock jargon, and Garfield’s netspeak

Posted on 2006-08-23 by Joel Martinsen

Rock slang from Yan Jun, anime slang from Japan, and netspeak in the new Garfield movie.

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Gnawing at language, biting the ankles of Chinese media

Posted on 2006-05-04 by Joel Martinsen

A look at the Chinese magazine ‘Correct Language’ (咬文嚼字 – ‘Yaowen Jiaozi’) and language pedantry.

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You can’t say that on televison

Posted on 2005-10-17 by Joel Martinsen

SARFT reiterates: Language in television series (excluding local traditional opera) should be mainly Mandarin. Under normal circumstances, dialects or non-standard Mandarin are not to be used.

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Beijing cleans up its sign translations

Posted on 2005-09-06 by Joel Martinsen

Racist Park and other Chinglish signs ‘vanish’. Then, Beijing looks to cleaning up uncomfortable Chinese place-names as well.

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