I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.