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Day: April 24, 2014

The new Chinglish: English adopts Chinese words

24 April 201411 April 2015 Johanna1 Comment

The WSJ’s China Real Time blog has a fun article on Chinese words in the English lexicon (there are few compared to other languages, such as French, Italian and Yiddish), based on a Xinhua report about Chinese buzzwords that have made it onto the great linguistic archive … Urban Dictionary. Seriously, the Chinese state media […]

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