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Joss was right... Mandarin is the language of the future...
Friday, February 27, 2004 6:39 PM
MICRONAUT
Friday, February 27, 2004 7:32 PM
11THHOUR
Quote:Originally posted by Micronaut: Weird... Joss's accidental choice of Mandarin over Cantonese may actually work out in reality...
Friday, February 27, 2004 7:46 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2004 11:09 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Micronaut: That is total gôu pì... Firefly fans would never curse in Mandarin... Dong ma?
Thursday, June 20, 2024 3:36 PM
JAYNEZTOWN
Thursday, June 20, 2024 4:50 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Monday, June 24, 2024 8:50 PM
Monday, June 24, 2024 9:11 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: 20 years later... I wonder how many people working at CNN know how to speak Mandarin. My guess is zero.
Monday, June 24, 2024 9:15 PM
Monday, June 24, 2024 11:10 PM
Quote:Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: 20 years later... I wonder how many people working at CNN know how to speak Mandarin. My guess is zero. Probably 2 or maybe 1 anyone with the Liu, Wong, Lehei or 'Wang' type name, you will have AI that will get a lot of people fired.
Quote:its not an escape language for a Westerner to learn, far removed from Latin, Germanic, Indo-European languages, it has lots and lots of news sounds, bending tones, a alphabet picto Logogram indicative Pictograph morphemes symbol ideogram 'letters' with thousands upon thousands of characters possibly one of the more difficult languages to learn
Saturday, July 6, 2024 6:15 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Yeah. Those characters are wild. Same with Japanese and Kanji. I honestly don't even understand how they can communicate over the internet via keyboard unless they learned another language to do it or made their own hybrid language expressly for typing.
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Saturday, August 24, 2024 7:37 AM
Quote: In Latin and Ancient Greek, there are two patterns seen when the form of a name suggests the wrong gender for the person it refers to. For many names, especially native ones (but some foreign ones too), they'll be modified to read as the appropriate gender. The daughter of Valerius will be named Valeria, since -a is the most common ending for (grammatically) feminine nouns. This is how we've ended up with Moses and Solomon in English, even though the Hebrew doesn't have final consonants there—? (e) and ? (o) in Greek are feminine endings, with ?? (es) and ?? (on) as their masculine equivalents. Other names, especially foreign ones (but some native ones too), will keep their original form, but change their grammatical gender to match the person they're referring to. "Sulla" looks feminine, and is indeed grammatically feminine when it refers to a woman, but is grammatically masculine when it refers to the famous dictator. Which pattern is followed depends on the name more than the person. Julius Caesar's mother was named Aurelia Cotta; her father was named Aurelius Cotta.
Monday, August 26, 2024 6:21 AM
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THG
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 6:17 AM
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Friday, August 30, 2024 1:04 PM
Quote:Originally posted by THG: China is going under, falling apart. English is, and will remain, the global language. T
Thursday, September 5, 2024 1:42 PM
Quote:Originally posted by THG: China is falling apart
Thursday, September 5, 2024 1:45 PM
Thursday, September 5, 2024 2:19 PM
Quote:Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: Quote:Originally posted by THG: China is falling apart Like a zombie Apocalypse?
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