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[INDIC]

Pakistanis are Caucasian South Asians, while Indians are a mixed-race, primarily Dravidian and Australoid (which are cousins of the Negroid), and some Caucasian admixture when their Pakistani brethren used to pillage their lands back in the day (the Pakistanis have more common ancestry with the Indo-Aryans than the Dravidian-looking Indians do).

Where did you find that.

 

[East Asia United]

Where did you find that.

Common knowledge

 

[INDIC]

Common knowledge

Your common knowledge went wrong.

 

[East Asia United]

Your common knowledge went wrong.

I already provided one source for my argument. You can do the rest.

 

[Wholegrain]

What an idiot.

I've clarified this to you before, I said Chinese "characters". Specifically, Chinese "characters".

Learn to read.



What, you think that it's correct to write 係唔係 instead of 是不是?

@Developereo

Watch this

http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/89139-language-bans-anger-chinese-2.html#post1416367

Mandarin and Cantonese are both just "dialects" of the "Chinese language" (Han yu). Same with Shanghainese, etc.

Mandarin/Shanghainese/Cantonese speakers are all speaking the "Chinese language", and the written form is the same for all.

As a native Cantonese speaker myself, I see no problem in making Mandarin the official dialect of Hong Kong too. It's all Chinese at the end of the day, and it would facilitate greater communication and cooperation.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/centra...h-bad-india-triggers-outrage.html#post4544098

They are right. India should not have English as their de facto official language.

If the Government of West Bengal wants to communicate with the Government of Tamil Nadu, why don't they use an Indian language instead of English? Why is it that Manmohan Singh addresses the nation using English?

If Hindi is too politically sensitive, then why not Sanskrit? It is shocking that there are only 14,000 Indians who can write Sanskrit.

In China, everybody can write in the same language with which Sun Tzu wrote the Art of War over 2500 years ago. The characters are still the same as they were before.

And yet in another thread, an Indian member was accusing China of giving up our culture! Have you heard Hu Jintao once speaking English in public? I don't think he has spoken English ever, in public or private.

Lies again. Not everyone in China can write in Classical Chinese (wenyan).

http://www.defence.pk/forums/centra...bad-india-triggers-outrage-2.html#post4544201

The writings of Sun Tzu and Confucius several thousand years ago are written in the same Chinese characters we use today.

There are of course some differences in grammar and meanings of some characters, but apart from that it is the same and can be picked up and read straight away.

Lies again, Classial Chinese is far more different than "some differences in grammar and meanings of some characters", and Mandarin speakers will need to study it in school and it can NOT be "picked up and read straight away"

It seems Chinese-Dragon has compulsive lying disorder. He specifically mentioned language.

 

[INDIC]

@Developereo

Watch this

http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/89139-language-bans-anger-chinese-2.html#post1416367



http://www.defence.pk/forums/centra...h-bad-india-triggers-outrage.html#post4544098



Lies again. Not everyone in China can write in Classical Chinese (wenyan).

http://www.defence.pk/forums/centra...bad-india-triggers-outrage-2.html#post4544201



Lies again, Classial Chinese is far more different than "some differences in grammar and meanings of some characters", and Mandarin speakers will need to study it in school and it can NOT be "picked up and read straight away"

It seems Chinese-Dragon has compulsive lying disorder. He specifically mentioned language.

I saw some oracle bones Chinese character, they didn't looked rectangular like the modern Chinese character but simple curves.

 

[Wholegrain]

I saw some oracle bones Chinese character, they didn't looked rectangular like the modern Chinese character but simple curves.

The difference between oracle bone characters and modern characters is the style, like gothic and miniscule script for latin alphabet. I'm talking about the actual language which the characters are being used to express.

 

[Viet]

Japanese seldom eat salt, they use more soy sauce when eating, Chinese use soy sauce when cooking.

Japanese foods are expensive and most terrible if compared to others in the region. Unless you like to eat sushi all the time.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Lies again. Not everyone in China can write in Classical Chinese (wenyan).

Yeah, and who has not gone to secondary school?

And standard written Chinese is the same.

There is such a thing as written Cantonese but it is not official or correct to write in this manner.

And I see you have abandoned your failed argument in the other thread as well.

 

[Wholegrain]

Yeah, and who has not gone to secondary school?

And standard written Chinese is the same.

There is such a thing as written Cantonese but it is not official or correct to write in this manner.

And I see you have abandoned your failed argument in the other thread as well.

Flat out lies. Standard written Chinese is for Mandarin only.

Different dialects use different pronouns. Do these look like the same to you?

你 儂

他 伊 其 佢

我們 阿拉

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Flat out lies. Standard written Chinese is for Mandarin only.

Different dialects use different pronouns. Do these look like the same to you?

你 儂

他 伊 其 佢

我們 阿拉

What, so do you think it is correct or official to write in written Cantonese?

Like 佢哋㗎？

 

[INDIC]

Japanese foods are expensive and most terrible if compared to others in the region. Unless you like to eat sushi all the time.

Do you also eat raw meat like sushi.

 

[Developereo]

And standard written Chinese is the same.

This statement is different from your earlier statement quoted in post #65: that statement makes no mention of a standard, and seems to imply that the various spoken dialects do not have their own, distinct, written version also.

Mandarin/Shanghainese/Cantonese speakers are all speaking the "Chinese language", and the written form is the same for all.

I am not saying you are changing your statement, but your earlier statement is not worded precisely enough and leaves room for misinterpretation as to what you exactly meant.

Would it be fair to say that each spoken dialect has its own written version, albeit using a shared character set, and the Mandarin written version also serves as the national standard?

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

I want to know our Chinese brothers's opinions:

Just hypothetically, If Japaneses one day declare that they're willing to follow 北魏朝 idea to get closer to Han , are we willing to accept them and write off all their passed crimes and hatred?

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

This statement is different from your earlier statement quoted in post #65: that statement makes no mention of a standard, and seems to imply that the various spoken dialects do not have their own, distinct, written version also.



I am not saying you are changing your statement, but your earlier statement is not worded precisely enough and leaves room for misinterpretation as to what you exactly meant.

Would it be fair to say that each spoken dialect has its own written version, albeit using a shared character set, and the Mandarin written version also serves as the national standard?

Writing in written Cantonese is neither proper nor official. It is like writing in slang/colloquial.

It is all based on Chinese characters. You have wenyan and baihua and other different forms, but at the end of the day it is all Chinese.

I don't buy the western BS that different dialects of Chinese are different languages.