The World in Words 14: Chinese script, dialects and patriotic names
With the Olympics just a couple of weeks away, Chinese national pride is peaking. What better way to express that than name your one – and probably only – child Olympic Games? We get the lowdown on that, as well as on China’s many languages and dialects. Plus, there’s something else we can blame on computers: Chinese people are forgetting how write the script of their own language.
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