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Haiti Leader Says UK Aid Workers Violated ENGLISH, CHINESE SEXUAL ASSAULT CHINA’S INFLUENCE EACH OTHER REPORTS AGAINST WYNN Andrew Moody talks on how Two more sexual misconduct FORMER English and Chinese continue to allegations were leveled INTERNET influence each other in cultural against embattled casino CZAR crossover points like Macau mogul Steve Wynn OUSTED P2 MDT INTERVIEW P3,9 OPINION P10 CORRUPTION THU.15 Feb 2018 T. 14º/ 21º C H. 75/ 98% facebook.com/mdtimes + 11,000 MOP 8.00 2988 N.º HKD 10.00 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” WORLD BRIEFS HKZMB SOUTH CHINA SEA The Philippine government rejects Chinese names given to some undersea features in a vast offshore region where the Philippines has Macau to hold 600 undisputed sovereign rights, the presidential spokesman said yesterday in a new tiff despite the Asian neighbors’ mended ties. More on p11 vehicle quota on bridge P5 AP PHOTO AP PHOTO CAMBODIA Lawmakers yesterday unanimously approved changes to the criminal code and the constitution that can further limit free speech and political activities, already under stress from the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen (pictured). More on p13 MYANMAR Two Myanmar journalists facing up to 14 years in prison if convicted of receiving government secrets appeared for their latest court hearing in Yangon yesterday, one day after it was announced that they had won a major press freedom award. More on p14 AP PHOTO PAKISTAN Amid increasing pressure from the international community, Pakistan yesterday initiated a OXFAM SCANDAL much-awaited process of seizing assets and funds belonging to Islamic charities linked Haiti leader says UK aid workers to a radical cleric wanted by the U.S., officials said. P15 More on backpage violated ‘basic human decency’ 15.02.2018 thu th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO ANDREW MOODY However, I don’t think that Q&A Cantonese speakers see En- UNIVERSITY OF MACAU SCHOLAR glish in this way; as a threat to their speaking of Cantone- se. It is a theoretically-driven argument, not really relevant Macau residents don’t see to reality. MDT - Is the Chinese language susceptible to English as a threat to Cantonese importing words from other languages? AM - Chinese has a built-in Daniel Beitler resistance to that spread [of borrowed words] because of AST month, Andrew the writing system. It makes LMoody, an associate pro- it difficult to adopt words fessor at the University of that can’t be easily written in Macau was appointed by Chinese. Cambridge University Press In English, any sentence is as the editor of the English only about 50 percent An- Today journal for a five-year glo-Saxon. The rest are bor- term. Moody’s post began on rowings from French and La- January 1, 2018. tin mostly, but also others, In a statement, the Uni- even Chinese. versity of Macau described The alphabetic system has English Today as a “presti- made this easier to borrow gious peer-reviewed journal words. The Japanese can devoted to […] the English borrow words easily because language and its many forms they have a writing system and functions as an interna- they adapted for loan words. tional language.” Professor Moody now leads the international editorial team of the journal. Prior to that, he served as a mem- The last 15 ber of the editorial board of English Today and has con- years has seen tributed to the journal as an author. a huge increase In Macau, the academic is in the amount perhaps best known for his 2008 paper, “Macau English: of English use. Status, functions and forms”, in which he argued that al- though English has no insti- MDT - With the emer- tutional status in Macau, it ging importance of the had become a de facto official Chinese language for language. business with one of the Speaking to the Times last world’s largest single week, Moody said his priority markets, do you expect is to encourage more peer re- to see many more Chine- viewed work and more detai- se words in English-lan- led research in journal sub- How purist is the edito- like Hong Kong English, Sin- steadily increasing. guage conversation? missions. He also wants to rial team in regards to gaporean English and so on. AM - I think it’s already ha- encourage a broader accep- monolingual English? MDT - Certain words ppening. We already see Chi- tance of the different forms Andrew Moody (AM) - Of MDT – Is the interest in borrowed from English nese loanwords in English. of ‘world Englishes’, particu- course, inner circle commu- Asian jurisdictions like are used in daily, often That phenomenon really pi- larly those used in the Asia- nities – like in Australia, the Macau a result of a gene- colloquial, conversation cked up in the 19th and 20th Pacific region, as the journal U.K. or the U.S. - tend to pre- ral improvement in En- in Cantonese in Macau centuries, with expressions becomes more and more well serve English better, [but] I glish-language proficien- and Hong Kong. Is this like ‘barefoot doctor’, ‘iron known among Asian readers. am open to Asian varieties of cy? intrusion welcome? rice bowl’ and ‘to lose face’. The Times interviewed the English, not strictly the mo- AM - The last 15 years has AM - They are known as These are all Chinese expres- professor to find out why nolingual English [of Anglo- seen a huge increase in the loanwords or borrowed sions. the journal is gaining more Saxon-majority countries]. amount of English use. I words. There are certain En- Some famous expressions in traction in the Asia-Pacific That has been the policy of looked at the stats recently, glish words that are used a English are thought to have and how English and Chine- the journal in the past. All and there is about a 50-50 lot [in Cantonese-language come from pidgin languages se continue to influence each of the predecessor [editors] chance that people between conversation], but not be- [simplified and localized ver- other in cultural crossover were strongly committed to the ages of 18 and 40 will cause there is no alternative sions of their lexifiers], such points like Macau. being open to different va- speak English [in Macau]. in Cantonese. [The speakers] as ‘long time, no see’. rieties of English; ‘world En- Better quality education mi- don’t have to use an English Some people claim this Macau Daily Times glishes’ or expanding circle ght be behind this. Parents, word. expression came from pid- (MDT) - The journal is varieties. These expanding for example, love the num- I suppose some people gin English, but we are not receiving an increasing circle varieties have been ber of new English-speaking would see it that way [as an sure where it comes from amount of attention in growing since the end of schools in Macau. At the intrusion]. Every time you officially. We do know that Asian countries, most of World War 2. same time, it is interesting have a language that is al- Chinese pidgin English deve- which do not use English But I am interested in [going [to note] that the number of ready standardized, there is loped partly in Macau in the as an official language. further] with others in Asia Mandarin speakers is also a tendency to try to purify it. 18th and 19th centuries. www.macaudailytimes.com.mo EDITOR-IN-CHIEF (DIRECTOR)_Paulo Coutinho [email protected] A MACAU TIMES PUBLICATIONS LTD PUBLICATION MANAGING EDITOR_Paulo Barbosa [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITORS_Eric Sautedé, Leanda Lee, Severo Portela ADMINISTRATOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER + 4 Million page views Kowie Geldenhuys [email protected] NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Daniel Beitler, Emilie Tran, Grace Yu, SECRETARY Juliana Cheang [email protected] PER MONTH Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Jacky I.F. 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