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32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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Mythbuster: A Podcast About Language Prescriptivism

Cantonese is under threat in a way because of the politics involved in our education system and as well currently the huge wave of immigrants. So obviously we might in the end lose our language in certain domains, but at least for now, I think we own a good place. If we manage to get more recognition for the fact that Cantonese is a language, then I think we're golden. We tend to deal with a lot of issues surrounding language prescriptivism like people. But some... We do this as well, I think. That they are well behaved when they consider descriptivists unusually or if not, we sort of deep-programmed them.

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