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Apr 16, 2015 10:17

Blogs : gerry4 commented on SNMandarin 's blog Why do Chinese call us "Lǎowài老外 ”?

It is not hard to see why cross cultural confusion is so easy. The Collins Chinese/English Dictionary has the core meaning of lao with the third tone as 'old' and is used as a prefix/start for many combined words with a very diverse range of meanings. In the same dictionary the English word of foreigner has only one ... Full Comment>>