ah! I happened to come across this book in the Prelinger Library in SF recently and was transfixed by it for basically the entire hour or so I had there until closing time that day haha

cool that you got to study with him!

I was kind of shocked when I first learned this. literally *the* most important part of your work and you have ~no control over it? it's almost absurd, like doing interior design but someone else picks what color to paint the walls *after* you've arranged everything else

in sum, Alibaba next time pls hire me as linguistic consultant I will charge only the low low price of subjecting your staff to one (1) unnecessary 15min tangent about some obscure detail of one of my favorite languages

1) /kwju:/ is not an intuitive pronunciation of "QwQ" at all, for speakers of any language
2) /kwju:/ is at best rather awkward to pronounce for both English & Mandarin speakers
3) "quill" is pronounced /kwɪl̴/ which doesn't really sound that much like /kwju:/ (they probably thought it was /kwil̴/)

same lol I am also basic, but a bit less water and no milk bc I like bitter

what's your coffee recipe?

and sell them as posters!

this is awesome!! do more of these!!

"っぽい"

"keeper"

"fiend"

it's giving