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  2. Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage

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    Lin's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage comprises approximately 8,100 character head entries and 110,000 word and phrase entries. [10] It includes both modern Chinese neologisms such as xǐnǎo 洗腦 "brainwash" and many Chinese loanwords from English such as yáogǔn 搖滾 "rock 'n' roll" and xīpí 嬉皮 "hippie".

  3. Chinese Internet slang - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Internet slang (Chinese: 中国网络用语; pinyin: zhōngguó wǎngluò yòngyǔ) refers to various kinds of Internet slang used by people on the Chinese Internet. It is often coined in response to events, the influence of the mass media and foreign culture, and the desires of users to simplify and update the Chinese language.

  4. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This article should specify the language of its non-English content, using {}, {{transliteration}} for transliterated languages, and {} for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code. Wikipedia's multilingual support templates may also be used.

  5. ABC Chinese–English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Here are three representative examples of praise: "the most extraordinary ChineseEnglish dictionary I have ever had such pleasure to look Chinese words up in and to read their English definitions"; [22] "The thorough scholarship and fresh outlook make it a valuable contribution to Chinese lexicography, while the high production standards and ...

  6. American Sign Language grammar - Wikipedia

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    Rightward Wh-movement Analysis in American Sign Language The rightward movement analysis is a newer, more abstract argument of how wh-movement occurs in ASL. The main arguments for rightward movement begin by analyzing spec-CP as being on the right, the wh-movement as being rightward, and as the initial wh-word as a base-generated topic. [ 58 ]

  7. List of English words of Chinese origin - Wikipedia

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    Words of Chinese origin have entered European languages, including English. Most of these were direct loanwords from various varieties of Chinese.However, Chinese words have also entered indirectly via other languages, particularly Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese, that have all used Chinese characters at some point and contain a large number of Chinese loanwords.

  8. 'Barbie' now has an ASL version and the reactions are beautiful

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    The hit film became available Dec. 15 to stream on Max with an additional feature: an American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. According to a Dec. 5 press release from Warner Bros. Pictures, ...

  9. Chinese Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    The first references to sign language (simplified Chinese: 手语; traditional Chinese: 手語; pinyin: shǒuyǔ; lit. 'hand language') in Chinese literature date from the Tang dynasty, documenting a sign for 'mirror'. [3] In the Song dynasty, Su Dongpo describes a community that employed a form of sign language. [3]