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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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The Importance of Spaces in the Conversation About Latin

The pharmacy guild of Australia, Victorian branch president Anthony Tesson has condemned the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Australia as not a rollout, but a stroll out. We've also got red tourism and stroll out our words of the week. Sydney sent us an email saying that Taiwanese Chinese was a bit of a creole or like creole. It's not a creole. A creole is a very specialized language situation that only happens in contact with each other. Thanks to Sydney for pulling us up on that one. There are situations where it can be ambiguous if you place characters next to each other and there aren't spaces. Is that right?

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