Archive for the ‘Language’ Category
I’d like to buy the world a Coke…
Delivering peace, one Coke at a time…
“What the world wants today” is both that elusive peace, and a Coke, as the commercial famously puts it. Buying a Coke is one form of peace, I guess; but how else do we define it?
War, in the name of peace…
The thought is bewildering, paradoxical, and also quite present [...]
Danger and escape along the Tumen River: North Korean refugees, the struggle to survive, and the effort to tell their story
Laura Ling and Euna Lee must have quite a story. What they have recently published, in the form of an Op/ed in the LA Times, is a brief explanation of their reason for being in that part of the world, and a narrative description of how and what happened when they were detained by North [...]
September 8th, 2009哈利 波特 or, a way to improve my Mandarin
“Harry Potter” in Chinese is one of those transliterations that is necessary when translating names across languages; and the sounds are nearly perfect– jokes aside regarding Chinese natives’ English pronunciation.
哈利 波特 literally sounds like “ha li po te,” with the “r” sound coming out like an “l.” In fact, when I say those syllables out [...]