Newspeak

Ever since week one of my Chinese study freshman year, when I learned that the word for telephone was “electric speech”, I knew I’d like this language. Chinese, as a somewhat limited language, without prefixes and suffixes and compound words, is full of wonderful words that have adapted with Western influences and changing technology. Here are a few examples of my favorites, see if you can’t guess what they are;

1. public together car
2. electric brain
3. ground iron
4. dry(v) dry(adj) vessel
5. Western red persimmon
6. foreign eggplant
7. soil bean
8. film appearance machine
9. exploded corn flowers
10. fire chicken

Answers:
1.bus 2.computer 3.subway 4.dryer 5.tomato 6.tomato 7.potato 8.camera 9.popcorn 10.turkey