Non-specialists may find the following study to be delightfully confusing. Here’s the citation, and a snippet from the whole thing. (Click on the image to see an enlargement of it. Click on the title link to obtain a copy of the entire article.): “A Study of Chinese-English Code-switching in Chinese Sports News Reports,” Chun-xuan Shen, […]
Tag: English
Chemistry [English, English and English Edition]
This book is billed to be specially for readers who prefer chemistry books in a special English, English and English edition or who at least know what a special English, English and English edition is (thanks to investigator Scott Langill for bringing it to our attention): BONUS: A movement disorders book in clinical practice, too, […]
How to speak English, w tension
Lesson 1 of the Spoken English Online System delivers 4 minutes and 33 seconds of dramatic tension (Thanks to Damaris Cummins for bringing it to our attention). What, the viewer almost cannot help but constantly (and thanks to the music, throbbingly) wonder, will happen next — or at all?
Linguistics lesson: English pronunciation
Linguists quarrel, sometimes fiercely, about how to pronounce certain words. This 1937 film clip shows one such argument about how to pronounce, among other things, the word “tomato”: