Popular English words that have no direct translation in Chinese are fuelling fierce debate in the mainland, reports the BBC's Yuwen Wu.

The "invasion" of English words into the Chinese language must be stopped or it will no longer be a pure language, according to the country's most senior translator.

Just look at English. It's been argued that words like “testimony” have a patriarchal origin (approximate translation: Only those with balls are trusted to testify).

Over 1,000 words of Chinese origin can now be found in the Oxford English Dictionary and, since the mid-1990s, the adoption of Chinese words and phrases into English seems to have been on the rise.

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