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Sneeze, hiccup, cough

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Exceedingly few people (almost none) can write the Chinese  characters for the Mandarin word for "sneeze" (dǎ pēntì).  I suspect that most people would also get one or both of the characters for "cough" (késou) wrong, though it's not as hard as dǎ pēntì. I mentioned this surmise to several colleagues and encouraged them to […]

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