Just had a weekend in the city of Yinchuan. Very nice it was too. On the walk to the bus stop to head for the station and home we passed a number of buildings with extremely scantily clad women in the brightly lit windows. Allegedly massage parlours it was clear that, in spite of official denials that such things exist in China, they were brothels. I joked to me girlfriend, "Do I have time?"
Her answer?
"The bus comes in five minutes and you must take your clothes off and back on so... yes."
The cheek of it!
William Labov, RIP.
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