JOURNAL

English as a Second Language

(posted 14 Dec 2007)

“Uncle Brian. If we live in England and we’re called English, why aren’t people from China called Chine-ish?”

Thanks to a recently opened Hong Kong budget airline, my brother and his family descended on us here in Hong Kong during 2007. The furthest the family had ever travelled in their vacation career was Malaysia, something my Jewish sister-in-law’s mother complains about to this day...  click here to read more

Shakes-perience

(posted 11 Nov 2006)

I was slightly skeptical when a teacher friend, relating some of the humorous things he'd heard children say while he patrolled the school playground, explained how many phrases coined by none other than our very own Will Shakespeare continue to be used, often unknowingly, by a whole new generation... click here to read more