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Bai hua (vernacular language) movement

In order to understand Xu’s achievement, it is necessary to know what classical Chinese poetry is like, and also to know something about the ‘bai hua’ (vernacular writing) movement that he was part of.

Traditional Chinese poems can take various forms but the forms have strict rules, like Shakespearean sonnets. The number of characters (words) in each line is predetermined. Chinese is a tonal language, and the tones of the individual words create the metre which must be strictly followed. Rhyme is essential. There is a set vocabulary rich with allusions, which only those educated within this tradition understand. Furthermore, the language used to write this verse is not modern spoken Chinese, but a literary form that is very different, perhaps as different as French is from Latin.

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In today’s news: Evelyn Waugh was a bad dad; in praise of the Mall of America; the pleasures of eating macaroni.

When “Macaroni” Meant “Sodomy”

In today’s arts and culture news: a look at history’s “macaroni clubs”; in praise of the Mall of America; why Evelyn Waugh was a shitty dad.

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Editor's Note: This marks the first installment of a 10-part series titled "Relaying recollections of the battlefield" that originally ran in the vernacular Asahi Shimbun.

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House Speaker John Boehner has decided to develop a backup plan to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, a strategy for averting a year-end tax increase if his negotiations with President Barack Obama break down.

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Bonbon Fabrika, 1972

Graphite, with erasing, and pen and black ink, with black and colored pencil and crayon, and masking tape, ruled in black pencil, on ivory wove paper
500 x 648 mm

Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation, 2013.1543

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Tasty Treats from Cologne -- COOL Style

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What's tempting the tongue from this year's Cologne Confectionery Trade Fair...

COOL made the difficult trek to Cologne just so our listeners could hear what is big in the world of sugar and spice. We also made the sacrifice of trying some of the sweets in-studio for an on-air taste test. Whether it's lucky marzipan pigs or organic dark chocolate, it's in Cologne and on COOL.
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The irony of that last part — and of the title of Hauser’s book-in-progress, “Evilicious: Why We Evolved a Taste for Being Bad” — wasn’t lost on some observers.

bonbon
(bŏn'bŏn') 
n.
A candy that often has a center of fondant, fruit, or nuts and is coated with chocolate or fondant.

[French, reduplication of bon, good, from Latin bonus.]

fondant

(fŏn'dənt) 
n.

1. A sweet creamy sugar paste used in candies and icings.
2. A candy containing this paste.

[French, from present participle of fondre, to melt, from Latin fundere.]

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	buy evilicious mugs, tshirts and magnets Food that is so delicious in a "sinful" way for being high in calories; usually pertaining to a dessert. I couldn't stop eating that cheesecake, it's evilicious! delicious evil sinful yummy gluttonous delicious adj. Highly pleasing or agreeable to the senses, especially of taste or smell. Very pleasant; delightful: a delicious revenge. [Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin dēliciōsus, pleasing, from Latin dēlicia, pleasure : dē-, intensive pref.; see de- + lacere, to entice.] deliciously de·li'cious·ly adv. deliciousness de·li'cious·ness n. SYNONYMS delicious, ambrosial, delectable, luscious, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy. These adjectives mean very pleasing to the sense of taste: a delicious pâté; ambrosial fruit salad; delectable raspberries; luscious chocolate bonbons; a scrumptious peach; a toothsome apple; yummy fudge.

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confection
noun [C] FORMAL
a decorated cake or unusual sweet dish

confectionary
n., pl. -ies.

1. A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
2. Sweet preparations; confections.
3. Obsolete. A confectioner.

confectionary con·fec'tion·ar'y adj.
French Cops Seize Fake Confections

Ten tons of chocolate bonbons could stuff a lot of stockings this holiday season -- but instead they will be under the lock and key of French customs agents.


 In modern French and several other European languages, the term simply refers to any type of candy or small confection. Dessert Bonbons

confection

An elaborately constructed thing, especially afrivolous one:his elaborate pop confections

MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES

1.2An elaborate article of women’s dress:Therese was magnificent in a swirling confection of crimson

2[MASS NOUN] The action of mixing or compounding something:the confection of a syllabub

meringue1

Pronunciation: /məˈraŋ/ noun

• an item of sweet food made from a mixture of egg whites and sugar baked until crisp:chocolate meringues [mass noun]:cover the pudding with meringue

Origin:

from French, of unknown origin

vernacular

• [vərnǽkjulər]

[形]（▼比較変化なし）

1 〈言語が〉（標準語あるいは外国語に対して）その土地固有の(native)；（第二言語に対して）生得の, 母語の

the vernacular tongue
その土地の言語, 自国語.

2 土地の言語で書かれた；土地言葉を用いる；土地言葉の

a vernacular bible
土地言葉に訳された聖書.

3 一般庶民の日常語を用いる

the rhythm of vernacular speech
日常語のリズム.

4 〈建築様式などが〉その土地特有の.

5 〈動植物名が〉通称［俗称］の.

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1 ((the 〜))土地言葉, 地方語, お国言葉, 方言；生得語；ある地方［種族］特有の単語・表現.

2 専門［職業］語, 仲間言葉.

3 平易な日常語, 日常的表現.

4 （動植物名の）通称, 俗称.

5 （その土地の）固有建築様式.

［ラテン語vernāculus （verna生まれつきの奴隷＋-culus -cule＋-AR＝生まれつきの奴隷の）］

ver・nac・u・lar・ìsm

vernacular

(vər-năk'yə-lər)

n.

1. The standard native language of a country or locality.
2. 1. The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language. See synonyms at dialect.
   2. A variety of such everyday language specific to a social group or region: the vernaculars of New York City.
3. The idiom of a particular trade or profession: in the legal vernacular.
4. An idiomatic word, phrase, or expression.
5. The common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.

adj.

1. Native to or commonly spoken by the members of a particular country or region.
2. Using the native language of a region, especially as distinct from the literary language: a vernacular poet.
3. Relating to or expressed in the native language or dialect.
4. Of or being an indigenous building style using local materials and traditional methods of construction and ornament, especially as distinguished from academic or historical architectural styles.
5. Occurring or existing in a particular locality; endemic: a vernacular disease.
6. Relating to or designating the common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.

[From Latin vernāculus, native, from verna, native slave, perhaps of Etruscan origin.]

vernacularly ver·nac'u·lar·ly adv.

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macaronic
(mak-ah-RON-ik)

adjective
Involving a mixture of languages.

Etymology
From Latin macaronicus, from Italian dialect maccarone (macaroni), probably alluding to the jumble of macaroni and sauce on a plate

Usage
"Speaking not in the gleefully macaronic English that has made for such good, clownish copy in the past, but in his native Italian, he sounded serious and reflective as he answered questions about his age, his health, and his dwindling plans for the future." — Justin Davidson; Pavarotti Winds Down; Newsday (New York); Mar 11, 1998.
adj.

1. Of or containing a mixture of vernacular words with Latin words or with vernacular words given Latinate endings: macaronic verse.
2. Of or involving a mixture of two or more languages.

[New Latin macaronicus, from Italian maccheronea, macaronic verse, after Maccharonea, title of a work containing such verse by Tifi Odasi, 15th-century Italian author, from maccherone, maccaroni, course food.]

macaronic mac'a·ron'ic n.