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Football Language: To be at it
In this football language post we explain the expression 'to be at it' which is used when a player or a team are playing really well.
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Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2023 Copa Libertadores Final Review – Fluminense v Boca Juniors
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Football Language Expression: Challenge
In this football language post we look at some of the meanings of the word 'challenge' in football including one connected to tackling another player.
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Football Glossary: Orange Card
When we use the phrase 'an orange card', we believe a tackle is between a yellow card and a red card. The tackle is bad and could be a red.
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Learn English Through Football Podcast: Liverpool and Tottenham 2023-24 Season Preview
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Newspaper Headline: Heartbreak
In this football language post we look at the newspaper headline, 'Heartbreak' from the Guardian newspaper which is all about the 2023 Women's
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Newspaper Headline: The New Number Nein
In this football language post we look at a newspaper headline, 'The New Number Nein' from the Star on Sunday newspaper about Harry Kane's transfer from Tottenham to Bayern Munich.
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Learn English Through Football Language Podcast: 2023 Women’s World Cup In Numbers
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come up (3)
to appear, occur, or become available
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Word of the Day
repose
Definition: (noun) The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
Synonyms: ease, relaxation, rest.
Usage: The vacationer took his repose beside the swimming pool.
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Football Language Expression: Wipe the floor
In this football language post we explain the expression 'to wipe the floor with' which is used to describe when one team thrashes another...
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Learn English Through Football Podcast: Premier League Opening Weekend and 2023 Women’s World Cup
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Football Language Expression: Victory Parade
In this football language post we explain the expression 'victory parade' which is used to describe how a team celebrates after winning a trophy.
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Learning English Through Football Language Podcast: (Listening) Being a Fan – Manchester City [ARCHIVE]
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shot
an attempt, a try, a turn
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Idiom of the Day
laugh in (one's) sleeve
To rejoice or be amused secretly and/or contemptuously, as at another's mistakes or misfortunes. Watch the video
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Language Log
The past, present, and future of Sinography
Sino-Platonic Papers is pleased to announce the publication of its three-hundred-and-fifty-second issue: "Dramatic Transformations of Sinography in East Asia and the World" (pdf) (August, 2024).
Foreword
The three papers in this collection were written for my “Language, Script, and Society in China” course during the fall semester of 2023. All three of them are concerned with radical changes made to Sinographic script during its adjustment to modernity.
Aleena Parenti shows how, during medieval times, Vietnamese acquired a written form known as chữ Nôm (lit., “writing of the south”) under the impact of the Chinese script, which in turn yielded to romanization brought by the French colonialists during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. That resulted in the current Vietnamese alphabet known as chữ Quốc ngữ (“writing of the National Language”).
Zhaofei Chen’s paper reveals the tremendous impact of the vernacularizing influence of Western missionaries during the late imperial period of Chinese history (from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries). Through translation, romanization, and their own writings, the missionaries contributed massively to the eventual demise of Literary Sinitic / Classical Chinese as the official written language, at the hands of Modern Standard Mandarin.
Yifei Yang explores how the Japanese development of emoji 絵文字 (lit., “picture writing”) has escaped the confines of any particular language and, as pictograms, logograms, ideograms, and smileys, can be adopted into the writing of any language. Emojis are widespread on social media, are especially favored by young people, and are by no means limited to East Asia. !
Taken all together, these three papers presage tumultuous developments in the further evolution of Sinography during the rest of this century and beyond.
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Selected readings
* "Parenthetical, alphabetical, ironical commentary in Sinographic texts" (12/29/21) — with a long bibliography (digraphia, romanization…)
* "Sinographic inputting: 'it's nothing' — not" (2/22/21)
* "Words in Vietnamese" (10/2/18)
* "Vietnamese in Chinese and Nom characters" (5/28/13)
* "Update on Nom" (7/16/13)
* "The Miracle of Western Writing" (12/31/23)
* "The invention of an alphabet for the transcription of Chinese characters half a millennium ago" (11/21/22) — based on Takata Tokio's detailed codicological study of Matteo Ricci's Jesuit colleague, Nicolas Trigault (1577–1628), whose Xīrú ěrmù zī 西儒耳目資 (An Aid to the Eyes and Ears of Western Literati)
* "Candida Xu: a highly literate Chinese woman of the 17th century" (7/7/20)
* Victor H. Mair, "Sound and Meaning in the History of Characters: Views of China's Earliest Script Reformers", pinyin.info. From Difficult Characters: Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese and Japanese Writing, edited by Mary S. Erbaugh, copyright © 2002 by the National East Asian Languages Resource Center of the Ohio State University. Used by permission of the National East Asian Languages Resource Center.
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