Ordinary Gweilo
It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writing (mainly) about Hong Kong
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Month: Apr 2011
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Cory Doctorow in The Guardian (How do you persuade people to pay?) on the muddled strategies of the entertainment industry: The seemingly straightforward act of purchasing a good or service is fraught with mystery […] and the complexity is multiplied by purchases in the digital world. In the physical realm, there’s real danger in taking…
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Another piece of well-argued rhetoric from Pierce Lam in the SCMP. Hemlock argues back here. Official status of English in HK is ancillary I refer to your one-sided editorial ("Worrying language trend in press release", March 28). The use of English for official purposes is governed by the Basic Law (Article 9) which does not…
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