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> I think that over the next 50 years, various Chinese phrases, language quirks and usage will start bleeding into English

Right on. That was one of my favorite elements of the Firefly TV series.

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One of the criticisms of Firefly was that for a future that was supposed to have a large Chinese population / integration of Chinese culture, you never really saw any Chinese characters (aka whitewashing). That said, I always thought it was an elegant work-around to broadcast TV's limitations on cusswords.

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