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From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
To: "Mingde (Matthew) Zeng" <matthewzmd@posteo.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Kai Ma <ksqsf@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Subject: Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:46:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F148396A-FD7A-41DF-9456-E8EFC96A82E0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu0e3giu.fsf@posteo.net>



> On Oct 22, 2020, at 2:45 AM, Mingde (Matthew) Zeng <matthewzmd@posteo.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> This email brings me to look at the etc/HELLO file for the first time.
> 
> As a Chinese myself, I must point out that there is virtually _no_ Chinese who would say "早晨, 你好" when they greet someone, regardless of whether they speak Mandarin or Cantonese. Although it is technically correct, it is _super_ weird for someone to say it this way.

早晨 is a common greeting for Cantonese, and 你好 for Mandarin. I don’t see much problem in it.

> 
> Basically the meaningful difference between Mandarin and Cantonese on paper is that the former uses simplified Chinese and the latter uses traditional Chinese. Fortuntaely, when it comes to greet someone, both mandarin and cantonese use "你好", which is the same in both simplified and traditional.

早晨 is common for Cantonese speakers, AFAIK.

Yuan


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-22 15:46 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
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 [this message]

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