Keywords

Who the hell is this “shimu” everyone is talking about? Well, not everyone – just our department’s always helpful and infinitely polite administrative assistant. After noticing my blank stare, she explained that shimu 師母 was another word for my wife. More precisely, it is a way to refer to the wife of a teacher. Not [...]

One of the things I love about riding the NY City Subway is how much individual personality each of the train conductors has. They each have different ways of announcing the stops, of telling people to get away from the closing doors, etc. The lack of standardization can be annoying at times, for instance, some [...]