30 Jun 2005 08:32 pm
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I originally took this for a poster next to it, but noticed the use of ?§?§??for ’show’, which is becoming more prevalant.
新东方 校园精英英语秀 就在这个暑假
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December 7th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Very interesting. Does anyone know whether this practice started out with people using the English “show” and then gradually having hanzi replace it? Or has this been hanzi all along? A related question: Is it always this Chinese character, or have others been used? In Taiwan, the word would almost certainly appear in English.
Mark S. @ 2005-07-01 02:25:17