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The Allusionist

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The Homophones in Chinese Language

In character episode, Jing Tzu talks about how Chinese language contains many homophones. These present a lot of difficulty to anyone trying to transcribe Chinese into the Roman alphabet. A currently very handy function of homophones is that they can be used to say things that would otherwise be censored. There's so many ventas in Chinese culture and linguistic context.

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