Review of Dreaming in Chinese by Deborah Fallows
This is a short, entertaining, accessible book on an interesting topic.
Review and Summary of Arrival (2016 movie)
Quibble how you will about inaccuracies in the depiction of linguistics, the fact that Hollywood deigns to depict a linguist at all is nice.
Review of The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu)
It’s as if Kafka decided to write a book with Carl Sagan, M.C. Escher, and the author of Flatland, and set it in China.
The Little Prince in Thai (and as a pop-up book)
My collection of copies of The Little Prince just got bigger!
The Little Prince in Translation
Here are my copies of The Little Prince in Lao(atian), Khmer (the language of Cambodia), Vietnamese, Portuguese, the original French, and Italian.
Review of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (translated by a commitee)
There must be better translations out there. I just read the free one from Gutenberg.
Why Chinese is hard
7. “There are too many [romanization methods], and most of them were designed either by committee or by linguists, or — even worse — by a committee of linguists.”
