2012年2月14日 星期二

Research? We don’t need no stinkin’ research!

 

“It’s clear that a lot of money has been spent on this. For example, many entries are accompanied by well-documented, precise explanations by distinguished lexicographers. Ha! Just kidding! Many entries are really accompanied by videos — some two hundred of them — of cutesy puppets gabbing about cross-strait differences in Mandarin expressions.”

- http://pinyin.info/news/2012/new-database-of-cross-strait-differences-in-mandarin-goes-online/