Chinese T9 is a stroke-based system, and different keys represented different strokes. With predictive text anticipating the next character, a typist on T9 averaged just 1.4 strokes per character ...

image: Chinese language commonly coexists with English at airport, retail and tourist sites. view more Credit: Dr Jeffrey Gil, Flinders University ...

So she started the website bestenglishname.com to help Chinese people choose, well, their best English name. But why the stripper names? She explains the fascinating reasons below.

Zhenyong Li has no trouble speaking English in his engineering jargon, but the Chinese immigrant says it can still be challenging to carry on small talk. And yet, casual conversation with native ...