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Monday, 16 April 2007

Contronyms

A contronym is a word which means its own opposite. An example is clip: it means both to fasten & to attach. Very cool.

Tuesday, 21 November 2006

Why Chinese is So Damn Hard

Found a great explanation of why Chinese is so difficult to learn. Some of the points aren’t quite fair—e.g. the fact that it’s not Indo-European doesn’t make any difference to, say, a Cherokee—but others are quite insightful.

Oddly enough, I kinda want to learn Chinese now…


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