This is one of those things where it never occurred to me there was regional variation until the subject cropped up. When I talk about drinking 'juice', I mean the stuff that you squeeze out of fruit. Usually sold in the chiller cabinets, although there's the pasturised stuff that doesn't have to go in the fridge till it's opened. I assumed that ( Read more... )

I started contemplating language in Firefly today, justifying my utterly crap fanfic Chinese on the grounds that language change over 500 years and across a galaxy would produce something pretty different from modern Mandarin. Then I started wondering about how English would change, and what other languages would get into the pot. This led to my ( Read more... )