Tag Archives: English

This is an advertisement from an English tutorial centre that I saw in the paper today. I find this advertisment quite funny. If Tann wished to emphasise the fact that she was a native speaker, why did she say the … Continue reading →

In a previous issue in the Ming Pao column co-authored by me and Dr Benjamin Au Yeung, we talked about new words created by Facebook and Facebook users. I noted that while we could say ‘to unfriend someone’ on Facebook, … Continue reading →

Episode 1  I was booking a table for lunch and the guy at the other end of the telephone line asked me to spell my last name. So I said “es-zed-ee”. He couldn’t get it. I repeated and he still … Continue reading →

There is this short article in the English section of today’s Ming Pao: Thinking about English﹕Paid Area Publishing Date: 2010/4/26 【明報專訊】Does anyone know of any other place in the world which uses the description “paid area”? I think this is … Continue reading →