Always thought Chinese is people and Mandarin is the language ?
Is Chinese a Language ?
dcep on 01/04/2018 - 11:00
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Beef with blackbean sauce for me.
I've always wondered what Forbidden City Meat is.
If it's forbidden and comes from the city, it can't be that healthy…
Username is THE forbidden meat.
But not in Yam Cha restaurants here. Roasted Peking Duck wrap…. hmmm… yuuuummm… drollz…
The meat at one place (now closed) was so tough I called it Mongolian Ram.
I eat Chinese with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
The group of languages called Chinese has a common writing system, and the variants are often regarded as spoken dialects. That's how Chinese signs can be read by different Chinese but in their pronunciation.
Well for writing, there is Simplified Chinese (used in China), and Traditional Chinese (used in Taiwan). There probably are exceptions to this generalisation.
They had a common origin and someone who has learnt traditional can adapt to simplified.
Mandarin is a fruit.
/s
And a duck. ;)
And a password.(was a password)
You just offended those who speak Cantonese
cantonese get offended so easily
I know.
Can't even say mommas making kantong without upsetting them
diu
PO KAI
Ham ka chan
any bargains on shitty sushi??
Chinese is a language of which there are many dialects. Mandarin is known as the official (standard) dialect but Cantonese is also widely used, especially in the South (eg. HK, Guangzhou etc). There are numerous other dialects too usually bound by region.
https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/02/e…
Apparently the linguistic definition is "two people share a language if they can have a conversation without too much trouble".
Under than definition, Cantonese and Mandarin (not mutually intelligible) are different languages. There seems to be a bit of debate in academic circles about this (see link)
What is a conversation? The vast majority of Mandarin speakers would be able to read Cantonese reasonably well and vice versa.
"chinese is people"… people is chinese. we are people. people are buying up Australia. australia is now Chinese….
0.o by jove i think he's got it!!We are Negan.
Tway
My favourite Chinese is Mongolian Lamb.