23.903, Media: Jeremy Lin puns in Chinese

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Subject: 23.903, Media: Jeremy Lin puns in Chinese

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Date: 22-Feb-2012
From: Brent Woo [bwoo at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Jeremy Lin puns in Chinese


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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:29:47
From: Brent Woo [bwoo at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Jeremy Lin puns in Chinese

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The recent craze following Jeremy Lin's surprising rise to fame in the NBA has 
turned up some new words trending in social media--among them "linsanity" and 
"linspiration". But English isn't the only language with wordplay: the Taiwanese 
media are using similar homophony in Chinese to build a whole lexicon of puns 
based on his name.

Read more: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-
news/2012/02/22/332405/Creative-Linguistics.htm 


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics





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