Big Mother
n.— «Advocates of parental spying say kids’ use of technology requires parents to keep up with gadgets of their own. Critics, however, have coined a term for the trend. Instead of Big Brother, they call such surveillance “Big Mother.” And what, they ask, ever happened to trust?» —“Big Mother” by Michael Blanding Boston (Masschusetts) May, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
How do you transform ancient Chinese script for use in the modern age? English uses a keyboard with just 26 letters, but the first Chinese typewriter looked like a small table under a huge disk with more than 4,000 characters. A new book chronicles...
The new book Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that Made China Modern (Bookshop|Amazon) is a fascinating history about the colorful characters who attempted to reinvent the complicated Chinese script to adapt it for use with modern...