Country of the Blind

As previously noted here and here . Compare the American and Japanese trailers for Disney's upcoming Moana: Note how the Americ...

Image by DALL-E (Revised for additional clarity 23 December 2022. This includes changes to the names of the tone markers.) In my extremely l...

(click on any image for a larger version) This being my second visit to Rome in three years , I had the opportunity to catch up on some ...

Revisited this archipelago recently. Herewith some random observations. Click on any photo for a larger version. Lots of panoramas in this s...

For many English-speaking students of Chinese, the fact that tone contours can make the difference in meaning between one Chinese word ...