Friday, January 29, 2016

Miss Prostitute

January 29, 2016


The Chinese word for "Miss" that used to be the term of respect for a young, unmarried woman has, over the past 10 years, gotten another connotation.  The connotation is "prostitute."

Nothing analogous has happened to the Chinese word for "Mr."


Copyright L. Kochman, January 29, 2016 @ 12:28 p.m.