Language Miscellany

• Learning Chinese characters An on line6 October, 2026
  Chineasy is a brand that sells products for learning Chinese characters. Chineasy has recently released a beta version of ‘Chineasy Atlas’, a web-based tool. The home page displays a 3-dimensional character cloud. Holding the cursor over any character displays basic information about the character: Clicking on a character takes you to a page displaying more… Continue reading Learning Chinese characters An on line
• Where did Welsh and Irish words come from?3 October, 2026
  In this post, I look at words inherited by both Welsh and Irish from: The information comes from the IE-COR database—a database of cognates for 170 words (lexemes) in 109 modern and 52 older Indo-European languages. IE-COR is available at IE-CoR – Home (clld.org). I’ve written before about IE-COR at: IE-COR covers lexemes for 170 meanings,… Continue reading Where did Welsh and Irish words come from?
• Up to 0% fat30 September, 2026
  This poster is keen to stress how fat-free the advertised product is. But somehow, the drafters mixed up their directions. The text says, in both Spanish and English that the product could contain ‘up to 0% fat’. So, the product has 0% fat, or even less—but wait, ‘less than 0%’ is a negative number. That… Continue reading Up to 0% fat

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