Here’s a fabulous collection of unusual words from foreign languages.
Two to add: In Spanish (at least in Ecuador), the word for hangover is the Quechua-inspired chuchaqui. I always thought it sounded more like what a hangover feels like — it’s more guttural.
I don’t know how to say it, but in Mandarin Chinese, my Taiwanese students […]
AP: “Piggies swim in a pool during a piggy sports contest held in the Yaohai Park in Hefei, capital of east China’s Anhui Province, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2005. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Liu Bingsheng)”
(Note: “piggies”!?!)
(Via Robot Wisdom.)
Justin Logan at the Cato Institue argues that Taiwan needs to take a more active role in defending itself from China. From a recent Washington Times op-ed:
For the last 4 years, the Bush administration has continually begged Taiwan to purchase a special $18 billion package of weapons designed to help defend against the threat from […]
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I know it’s been Chiwanese (Chinese/Taiwanese) 24/7 in these parts recently, but this was too good to pass up.
CS Monitor: “East meets West, with an Argentine twist”:
BUENOS AIRES – Like many in Latin America’s most Eurocentric country, 26-year-old Emanuela Gavezza has long fancied the West. Her grandparents hail from northern Italy, which she has visited […]
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Peter Hessler, who wrote the exceptional “River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze,” has got a new book coming out in April. It’ll be called “Oracle Bones : A Journey Between China’s Past and Present.” Those’re the only details I’ve got. I may just have to pre-order this one.
(Hessler’s author bio in last week’s […]