From: "Mingde (Matthew) Zeng" <matthewzmd@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, ksqsf@mail.ustc.edu.cn, rms@gnu.org,
stefankangas@gmail.com
Subject: Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 03:55:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kmlz89b.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831rhpl9bm.fsf@gnu.org>
>> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-23 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-22 6:25 etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese Kai Ma
2020-10-22 6:45 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-10-22 11:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-22 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-22 15:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-22 15:58 ` Werner LEMBERG
2020-10-22 15:44 ` Yuan Fu
2020-10-22 17:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-10-22 20:37 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-23 3:41 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-23 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 7:55 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng [this message]
2020-10-23 10:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 11:16 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-10-23 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 16:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-10-22 23:03 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-10-22 15:46 ` Yuan Fu
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=874kmlz89b.fsf@posteo.net \
--to=matthewzmd@posteo.net \
--cc=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=ksqsf@mail.ustc.edu.cn \
--cc=rms@gnu.org \
--cc=stefankangas@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).