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Arrival

Arrival

Arrival is not a movie that I particularly like. It is a very good movie, it moved me and I even read the short story that the movie is based on after watching it. But I won’t watch it again. Renner was there and I can barely tolerate him. And when the magic of first time viewing has gone, the movie is no longer interesting to me. But the story, both in the book and in the movie, is a…

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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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