Working on translation of any living languages that continuously evolve like English and Chinese often offers interesting, sometimes challenging, phrases. One of these is “当红炸子鸡(Dānghóng zhà zǐjī)“. If you googled this phrase, you will receive many results on a popular dish otherwise known as “fried chicken”. Only a few results […]
Snippets
I just realized that there are ONLY THREE words in the whole English language (whether the US or the UK variant or any variant) that ends in “ceed”. These are: proceed succeed exceed Wow. Of so many thousands of words, only three.
Words ending in “ceed”
There are many words in the English dictionary today that was once just someone’s names. Boycott Meaning: to avoid dealing with or to prevent dealing with as a protest Origin: Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott who was boycotted by his own tenants in the late 19th century. Quisling Meaning: Traitor, particularly […]
From names to words
Like wine of a premium vintage, as the days turn to weeks, weeks to months and months to years, you exude a charm that is increasingly sophisticated, sensuous and seductive..
Like wine of a premium vintage
If you googled “vanilla extract”, the first site you will see on the results list is this entry in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_extract. It described exactly what I always thought of vanilla extract – all plant, all natural, just a chemical process to extract the essence. I was watching “The Story of Food” […]
Vanilla Extract
I do understand that advertisements should try to grab attention, whether with words, images or sounds. But should not the language matter? Saw this advertisement promoting Elle Singapore magazine at the bus stop as the “Biggest selling magazine”, what is that? It’s not best selling, so what does this term […]
Biggest Selling?
We are now halfway through 2017 and today I moved to a new web address, hoping that this will help me boost my work prospects as well as improve my lot in life in general. I used to own ace2z.com but the website name simply did not gel and I […]