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Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3]
Guang Gun: A derogatory Chinese slang term loosely translating to "bare branches" or "bare sticks", used to describe unmarried men who have no legitimate children and therefore don't carry on the family tree or family name; the male equivalent of "spinster" or "Sheng nu".
Character amnesia is a phenomenon where experienced speakers of some East Asian languages forget how to write Chinese characters previously well-known to them. The phenomenon is specifically tied to prolonged and extensive use of input methods, such as those that use romanizations of characters, and is documented to be a significant issue in China and Japan.
This begun with the Nationalist language reform in 1939 and was eventually taken up and continued by the communist authorities. Many revised names that became the modern names for the non-Chinese peoples were proposed by the Chinese anthropologist Ruey Yih-Fu (pinyin: Rui Yi-fu). Ruey's pioneering work also traced the origins of such names ...
On October 11, 2011, the opening ceremony of the Eighth Chinese National Games for the Disabled was held in Hangzhou. [ 15 ] On December 6, 2011, the China Disabled Persons' Federation together with the World Health Organization and World Bank organized the World Disability Report and Community-based Rehabilitation Guide conference at Great ...
The campaign of Democratic President Joe Biden compared Trump's comments to those of Adolf Hitler, who used the phrase "blood poisoning" in his manifesto "Mein Kampf." Factbox-'Bloodbath,' 'vermin ...
Most Chinese characters represent only one morpheme, and in that case the meaning of the character is the meaning of the morpheme recorded by the character. For example: 猫: māo, cat, the name of a domestic animal that can catch mice. The morpheme "māo" has one meaning, and the Chinese character "猫" also has one meaning.
Taylor Swift is known for writing autobiographical lyrics about specific people that are or used to be in her orbit. In her song “Bad Blood,” she sends a vindictive message to an ex-friend who ...