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Post by Peter

iPhone Chinese Alphabet App

January 31st, 2010 | No Comments

Good Characters, Inc has come out with a new iPhone application: Chinese Alphabet. Thankfully, the creators realize such a thing does not exist and this is for entertainment value only, to add “mystery” to your writing. Of course, everything from the Orient is mysterious…

To those gullible to think this will translate their writing into real Chinese, for just $1.99 you can sound like an idiot!

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Post by Peter

Invented Languages

January 12th, 2010 | 2 Comments

With the popularity of the film, Avatar, linguists around the world have a new invented language to expose their geekiness: Na’vi.

Poised to join the ranks of other invented languages like Esperanto, Quenya (aka High-Elvish), and Klingon, Na’vi is sure to amass a following of nerds and linguists at future nerd conventions like Comic-con.

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Post by Yvonne

Thank Goodness for the Internet

June 16th, 2009 | No Comments

It then occurred to me that I have no idea how to say “blog” in Chinese. And it’s not like my mom (aka Queen Luddite) is going to be any help here.

“Blog” is not in my 英漢漢英字典, which is not all that surprising considering this edition was published in 2005.

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