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Harry Potter, The Chinese Version with the Lens of Linguistics
translation
close reading
chinese
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casual notes
why "muggle" resists a clean translation
2026 May 28
translation
wordplay
honorifics that quietly vanish in english
2026 Apr 15
pragmatics
register
reduplication in chinese onomatopoeia
2026 Mar 02
phonology
chinese
