Lost, and Translation
The Chinese language phrase book I picked up in my first week in the city of Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of China, asserts in a blurb on the back cover that travelers to China experience “instant illiteracy” and certainly this was a significant aspect of my first extended stay in that country. [...]
Bad Words
Why I find “geek”, when used as a slur, more offensive than words which may commonly be viewed as quite foul and offensive.