Lunchtime blogging today. I was so busy this morning creating a document listing all our family members’ names in Chinese, that I ran out of time. I had to fiddle with the Chinese word processor to get it to display the characters in both traditional and simplified versions, and had to work out which fonts only worked with traditional or simplified versions. And then there was the Cantonese pronunciation versus the Mandarin pronunciation, versus our family’s own, idiosyncratic pronunciation. By the time I’d finished with all that, I hadn’t even got to the meaning of each name yet! Chinese naming conventions are so complicated! (More on this soon.)
I also started an experiment this morning, which I might write more about in a week or two, depending on how it goes.
*No time. Dutch classes started again this past weekend.