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Hong Kong: bilingual city. Well, most of the time. Occasionally, our streets don't quite line up as we'd like them to.

Happy Year of the Rooster! 🐓 祝大家雞年快樂！恭喜發財！🎆 Bonne année du coq ! 🎉 Chúc Mừng Năm Mới ! 🐓

Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang passed away a few days ago. He was the father of Pinyin, the system of Romanized Chinese writing that has become the international standard since its introduction some 60 years ago.

"Trump’s vocabulary is limited, his syntax is broken; he repeats the same phrases over and over, forcing the translator to follow suit."

« C'est dur de bien traduire quelqu'un qui parle si mal. »

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‪猴年快樂‬！ 恭喜發財！🐒 Happy Year of the ‪Monkey‬! Bonne année du ‪Singe‬ !

新年快樂！

"‪Chinese‬ doesn’t think by the millions, but by man (萬), the 10,000." — via HK Magazine.

"Just what is the “Singaporean Language”? I can’t define it because there is none. But allow me to explain to you what languages I effectively speak, read and write, having been born and bred in the city state."

(via South China Morning Post)

羊年‬快樂！ 恭喜發財！ Happy Year of the Goat‬! Bonne année de la Chèvre‬ !

In this sad day, I am sure that many ‪‎translator‬ and ‪writer‬ friends throughout the world are feeling the same. Whatever opinions you set down on paper, no one should be silenced this way.

Read more on bbcnews.

Scientists have described the communications of chimpanzees and bonobos in new and unsurpassed detail, offering a lexicon for our closest living relatives and even a glimpse into the origins of human language. "We have the closest thing to human language that you can see in nature," said cognitive biologist Richard Byrne.

What do you think about it?