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Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese
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Mingde (Matthew) Zeng |
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Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Oct 2020 03:55:28 -0400 |
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>> I have contacts in Taiwan who can tell us.
Verify with a Taiwan native speaker if you really want to invest more time on
this, but I'll be 99.98% sure that he/she won't have a problem with "你好". In
fact, Taiwan folks write Traditioanl Chinese as well, but speak a local
dialect, which is not of our concern here.
> But I'd like to reiterate what I said earlier: I would only remove my
> objections for changing this part of HELLO if I hear from a
> representative enough group of native Chinese speakers from both sides
> of the divide that some change will be acceptable to them, and cause
> no controversies on either side. With all due respect, people who
> voiced their opinions in this matter till now cannot be considered
> such a group. In particular, none of them stated his/her country of
> origin and current place of living, nor the cultural group to which he
> or she belongs, which makes judging the opinions harder.
Well, I am a native Mandarin speaker from Guangdong China, where a very large
portion of the people speaks Cantonese, and I currently live in Canada.
--
Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese, Yuan Fu, 2020/10/22