Useful Cantonese phrases. A collection of useful phrases in Cantonese, a variety of Chinese spoken in Hong Kong, Macau, southern China, and a number of other places, in traditional characters and Yale Romanization. Key to abbreviations: frm = formal, inf = informal. Click on any of the phrases that are links to hear them spoken.
John T. Scopes. John Thomas Scopes (1900-1970) was a substitute high school teacher who went on trial in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925 for teaching evolution against State law. Chicago criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow unsuccessfully defended Scopes against the charge.
John Scopes called Darrow âthe best read man I have ever knownâ (. , 225)). Through his voracious reading he absorbed the mechanistic thinking and modernist notions of the age. Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud all shaped Darrow.