The Hypermodern

Proof: Chinese Have Least Fei Hua

Finally, a scientific validation of what we already knew intuitively!

Brad Plumer over at Ezra Klein’s blog has a link to a Time article where researchers coded languages to see which ones were more information-dense—meaning they contained more meaning per syllable. English is fairly dense, with a score of .91.

Mandarin Chinese was the densest language studied, with a score of .94.

Southern Exposure – Part 2: Dress Code

I talked a little bit in my last post about how the Shanghai Expo is definitely not about cultural sensitivity.  But if I left any doubt, on day two of my expo adventure, my cousin told me the following story: I was walking through the entrance line like we did yesterday and approached the security check. [...]