What word do you hear in this clip? Your browser does not support the audio element. If you heard "prison", you agree with me, and with Google's speech-to-text algorithm. But in fact the word is "president". The context is this passage from a 2015 speech, in which Donald Trump talks about a man who bought […]

[This is a guest post by Nathan Hopson] I recently received the following delightful question from Hilary Smith (University of Denver) about the origins of the term for protein in Chinese (dànbáizhì) and Japanese (tanpakushitsu). Thanks to her for pointing me down this lovely rabbit hole! The hanzi/kanji used are identical (蛋白質), though in written […]

From a Facebook page with Army background in Taiwan: Facebook page for Voice of Han Broadcasting Network (漢聲廣播電台 hànshēng guǎngbō diàntái) from Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense The large lettering on the poster reads: zǎo ān bù wèi fēngyǔ dōu shì weather nǐ 早安 不畏風雨， 都是weather你 Good morning Not afraid of wind or rain It's […]