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Our minds are elsewhere and for good reason, but I'd remiss not to plug a new book by my brilliant colleague Jung Lee.

Curious to know why many Korean flora carry the name of a Japanese botanist (Nakai) in their taxonomic signature? This is the book for you!

www.routledge.com/Renaming-Pla...
Renaming Plants and Nations in Japanese Colonial Korea
This book studies a striking example of intensely negotiated colonial scientific practice: the case of botanical practice in Korea during the Japanese colonization from 1910 to 1945. The shared aim of...
www.routledge.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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There’s a stunning variety of third-person singular (3sg) pronouns (meaning 'she / he / it' or singular 'they') across Chinese languages and dialects. Here are a few of them:

Mandarin: tā
Cantonese: keoi5
Taiwan Hokkien and Shanghainese: i
Southern Wu: gi, ji

#langsky 🀄️📚

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