作者：謝嘉麒，語言學者（ 作者博客 ） 2021年已到達尾聲，過去呢一年除咗新冠疫情影響全世界人嘅日常生活之外，粵語學界亦都發生咗幾件令人震驚嘅事件。 响舊年 美國史丹福大學 (Stanford University) 突然宣佈停教廣東話課程，令唯一一位教廣東話課程嘅張錫莉博士黯然離開大學。呢件事備受爭議，而史丹福大學取消廣東話班嘅呢個決定，令 好多張 …

Cantonese means a lot to me. My interest in it is twofold: academic and personal. As I do research in Linguistics and I frequently analyse my native language (Chinese), I am naturally interested in Cantonese and its reception in the West. I also come from Hong Kong, China, and Cantonese…

繁體版本（简体版本在下）： 筆者認為金庸的「天龍八部」是上世紀世界文學中的一部巨作（有關本人對天龍八部的一些分析及看法，請閱讀此博客 ), 精彩好看的程度猶如一部「神作」。我幾年前曾經說過：「就只有神才能夠寫出一部這麼偉大的作品。」如「天龍八部」是一部「神作」的話，金庸的「倚天屠龍記」可是一部「佳作」。「倚天」是射雕三部曲的最後一部小說，也可以說 …

繁體版本（简体版本在下）: 在金庸眾多作品中，筆者最喜歡的是「天龍八部」。筆者十年前曾經說過：「永遠的經典，無可取代的神作，「天龍八部」。」「天龍八部」是佛教的傳統概念，形容宇宙八個神靈如何共存於這個世界，支配著佛念宇宙的構造與運作，而「天龍」一書的佛念成分極重，由主角之一的段譽在佛教盛世的大理國拜讀佛經至他在中原的一番經歷後回國的過程，遇到不少 …

Travelling is an exhilarating experience, since it is always refreshing to undergo physical displacement and experience a change in scenery. While I appreciate the powers of technology and the many benefits of remote communication both socially and professionally, I have enjoyed resuming long-haul travels post-COVID and revisiting airports has been…

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I presented a Lightning Talk on Chinese dialects at the Ronin Institute Lightning Talk event on 21st September 2023. Here are the recordings on YouTube and Vimeo. This presentation is based on a previous blogpost written in English and Chinese. Please check them out and let me…

I like the run-up to summer solstice, since my mood gets elevated by the incremental lengthening of daytime. This is especially noticeable in places away from the equator where summer days are long and winter days are short, which is striking for me as I grew up in Hong Kong…

Procrastination has been described as a major killer of time, since there is nothing more time-wasting than us holding things up and not making a start on the long overdue projects that really should have been initiated (if not completed) long ago. This may be one of the biggest deterrents…