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Three-language Punning

October 24, 2011 -By: -In: In the News / Awards - 20 comments

Bilingual puns are even lamer than monolingual puns. But don’t the bilinguals love them. And it gets worse. Trilingual puns, which by definition too clever by half, are the lamest of all, but are now the basis for an ad campaign in Hong Kong. Sarah Mishkin reports in the Financial Times: Sina Weibo, China’s leading […]

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Happy Hangul Day!

October 9, 2011 -By: -In: Language - Comments Off on Happy Hangul Day!

View the vodcast version of this post on the Translation Guy YouTube channel. I haven’t been able to find any hangul cards at Hallmark, and for that matter I’m not even sure how you celebrate this Korean holiday (October 9) that marks the invention of hangul (한글) the native alphabet/syllabary of the Korean language. Maybe […]

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