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Saviour of the World

Saviour of the World

I am usually not interested in classical paintings. They are too heavy, both in composition and allegory, for me. So when I heard that one Leonardo da Vinci’s painting was sold for 450 millions dollars, my reaction was: “kay”. After all, neither the fascination for any thing “da Vinci” and a whopping price tag for an art are surprising in this world. What interesting is observing the reactions of people to it. A lot are excited: about the record breaking price, about how it…

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Languages and writing systems

Languages and writing systems

So I was reading this: Asia’s Orthographic Dilemma. I don’t have any reference in linguistic, although I did have some lessons at university, so I don’t even know if this author is legit or not. I have forgot the majority of what I have read from this book already. But the things that I learn from it is not its strictly speaking content anyway. He said something about Principle of Substandard Southern Speech, basically according to this, Saigon speech, just like the…

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