{"id":385,"date":"2013-10-14T13:07:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T12:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=385"},"modified":"2013-10-14T13:07:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T12:07:01","slug":"why-so-little-chinese-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Why so little Chinese in English?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ON TWITTER, a friend asked “Twenty years from now, how many Chinese words will be common parlance in English?” I replied that we’ve already had 35 years since Deng Xiaoping began opening China’s economy, resulting in its stratospheric rise\u2014but almost no recent Chinese borrowings in English.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many purported experts are willing to explain China to curious (and anxious) westerners. And yet I can’t think of even one Chinese word or phrase that has become “common parlance in English” recently. The only word that comes close might be guanxi<\/em>, the personal connections and relationships critical to getting things done in China. Plenty of articles can be found discussing the importance of <\/a>guanxi<\/a>, <\/em>but the word isn’t “common in English” by any stretch.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Most Chinese words now part…Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n

via Johnson http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/johnson\/2013\/06\/language-borrowing?fsrc=rss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to kowtow ON TWITTER, a friend asked “Twenty years from now, how many Chinese words will be common parlance in English?” I replied that we’ve already had 35 years since Deng Xiaoping began opening China’s economy, resulting in its stratospheric rise\u2014but almost no recent Chinese borrowings in English. Many purported experts are willing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t