Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese

["Mingde (Matthew) Zeng" <matthewzmd@posteo.net>]

> Is it correct in written language?

Although Yuan pointed out that it is common greeting in Cantonese (my bad, as I'm not too familiar with Cantonese, apologies for sounding far too certain when I shouldn't be), "早晨" means "good morning", and "good morning" is also a common greeting among English speakers, it definitely shouldn't appear in the file dedicated to HELLO. While "你好", which directly means "hello", same among simplified or traditional, should be only the word appearing in the file HELLO.

> And then try to find some greetings that are actually different in the
> two scripts.  I don't think they need to be natural in spoken language,
> but they would have to be technically correct in the written language.
> If they are unusual, that is fine, because the purpose is mostly to show
> the difference between the scripts.
>
> Does that proposal make sense?

If you _have to_ find a greeting closest to 你好 that's different in simplified and traditional, I propose 你好吗 (simplified) / 你好嗎 (traditional).
However it means "hello?" (with a question mark) or "how are you?", still slightly different from the simple and universal 你好. :-(

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Mingde (Matthew) Zeng