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<FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Not my usual area, but an editorial piece that I don’t think we’ve seen and which may be of interest:<BR>

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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/opinion/murong-xuecun-corrupting-the-chinese-language.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/opinion/murong-xuecun-corrupting-the-chinese-language.html?_r=0</a><BR>

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Jeffrey Kallen<BR>

Associate Professor of Linguistics and Phonetics<BR>

Centre for Language and Communication Studies<BR>

Trinity College Dublin<BR>

Dublin 2<BR>

Ireland<BR>

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