We've just enjoyed the bright harvest moon of Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋, 추석 秋夕, 月見, Trung Thu, etc.), so how about a moon-related linguistics thread?

We'll look at an unusual Chữ Nôm graph and recover some lost 17th-century Vietnamese sounds, among other things.

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wir suchen Arbeitskräfte (m/u)

Through the 1920s, Chinese intellectuals and writers were in a ferment over pronouns. Was it pro-feminist or anti-feminist to have a distinct written form for a third-person female pronoun? Opinions differed widely.

There's even a whole scholarly book about this.

www.routledge.com/A-Cultural-H...

Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered.

This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!

What more could you want?

#langsky 🀄️📚
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Time to start using social media for once! Here's my latest video on YouTube: youtu.be/4uJLvby7K9Y

From the comment section of linguistics.SE/40196, regarding citation forms.

ムギの木

Have you ever noticed that there is something strange about the Mandarin word wǎsī '(natural) gas'? Looking at the written form 瓦斯, it just doesn’t seem like a typical Chinese compound word. What's a roof tile got to do with gas?

Let’s see if we can figure out what’s going on. 加油!

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